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Re:Worries Grow That the Price of Bitcoin Is Being Propped Up by s73ver_ on Thursday February 01, 2018 @06:40PM (#16287006)
Both. Unless you are trying to insinuate that having protection against obvious scams is a bad and selfish thing.
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Re:Worries Grow That the Price of Bitcoin Is Being Propped Up by conanbatt on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:26PM (#16294310)
Are you asking the protections for yourself or the protections for other people?

Because i never asked for the SEC to protect me. We can live in a world with both. You have coinbase with way more backing that bitfinex, and people still choose bitfinex. Let people choose, and if they mess up they mess up.

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Re:Worries Grow That the Price of Bitcoin Is Being Propped Up by s73ver_ on Friday February 02, 2018 @05:09PM (#16294595)
Yeah, no. Again, you're arguing for the "freedom" to scam people. Not gonna happen.

And you don't live in isolation; you are not an island. Those people that get scammed? They're not going to do so in isolation. That's going to have a ripple effect on the rest of society.

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