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A comment on Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets. Parent comment

Re:Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Tr... by TomMarius on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @02:31PM (#16539095)
I think a better way to say it is that it helps to prevent turns of current regimes (that already have Internet infrastructure built and used) into oppressive regimes.
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Re:Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Tr... by s73v3r_ on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @04:13PM (#16539949)
How do you reconcile that with the idea that North Korea, perhaps the poster child for oppressive regimes, is being propped up by Bitcoin?
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Re:Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Tr... by TomMarius on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @04:21PM (#16540002)
I don't know how is that relevant to what I'm saying at all. I never said it can't be used for evil. Also, North Korea doesn't fulfill the condition of being internet-developed area before the turn to an oppressive regime happened.
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Re:Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Tr... by diab0lic on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @02:42PM (#16539179)
Do you honestly believe that would-be oppressive regimes with existing internet infrastructure will not turn oppressive because crypto? In the most optimistic scenario this argument deals with b but still suffers from a.
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Re:Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Tr... by TomMarius on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @03:05PM (#16539347)
No, but I think it helps more than it hurts. It's still in the beginning.
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