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Re:Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency by notahacker on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:44PM (#17034439)
You're actually asking for citations for the idea that the theoretical point of Bitcoin is reducing government control of money and a large practical part of the BTC economy is regulatory evasion?!

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the steel industry, aluminium industry, chemical industry, textile industry and copper industry have done more for humanity than Bitcoin. Use less electricity though...

YMMV, but I think it is more pragmatic, sensible, likely and beneficial to stop shitting on people's lawns than to evangelise wider adoption of a system for producing more shit, funnelling it more efficiently to lawns less likely to attract the attention of shit regulators, whilst insisting the real problem is that the lack of a global shit tax. (I'd have used a less fecal analogy like hazardous waste and clandestine disposal systems but that's a little too close to stuff I'm actually working on making more difficult in the day job!)

Re:Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency by hndamien on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @09:53PM (#17035873)
"citation for "one of the chief motivating factors behind crypto currency adoption has the idea of being able to avoid things like carbon taxes and energy quotas"."

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"citations for the idea that the theoretical point of Bitcoin is reducing government control of money and a large practical part of the BTC economy is regulatory evasion?!"

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Re:Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency by hndamien on Thursday May 10, 2018 @07:08AM (#17037837)
So no citation for your assertion then. Got it.