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Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing... by floodyberry- on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:18AM (#19562168)
How, exactly, does Bitcoin (and other shitcoins) being nominally 'decentralized', and whose main use after 10 years is still speculation and scams, relate to nazis and right wing trolls occasionally get kicked off twitter?
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Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing... by navigatesol on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:56AM (#19562323)
>How, exactly, does Bitcoin (and other shitcoins) being nominally 'decentralized', and whose main use after 10 years is still speculation and scams, relate to nazis and right wing trolls occasionally get kicked off twitter?

Perhaps because the people you label "right-wing trolls" are, sometimes, actually just people with different opinions, and deserve (at least in their minds) some protection? They aren't merely getting kicked off Twitter; in some cases they are being demonetized.

It's all well and good to sit back and say, "too bad for them", but it would be diligent to at least concede your "side" may not win this fight, and one day you might be getting the label.

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Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing... by floodyberry- on Friday April 05, 2019 @12:57AM (#19579835)
That doesn't explain why Bitcoin is useful for anything other than relieving stupid people of their money?
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