Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining
by arcticbull on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @11:26AM
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Both of those will remain. Even if we fully adopted Bitcoin there's no world in which we tell the army and the police to go home and thank them for their service. They do other things. It's not particularly effective to tell ISIS "you can't hurt me -- I've got Bitcoins!" You can't double-spend this energy budget.
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Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining
by flatfilefan on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @12:05PM
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It’s a big question to what extent the wars are/aren’t an extension of economics. My understanding it’s a direct relationship. ISIS got their money from selling oil or from sponsors selling oil for dollars or printing dollars. Police is another matter. But as much as crime has to do with cash money or centralized capitalism it may become moot when fiat money and related misuse potential is abolished.
Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining
by arcticbull on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @05:06PM
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A decentralized (except for China), un-regulated payment system currently being used primarily to break the law with the purchase of illicit narcotics, goods and services is going to prevent the funding of terrorism how exactly? My understanding is these groups are using it already. Here's a writeup on how North Korea is actively using Bitcoin to circumvent fiat sanctions [1] from a pro-crypto news source. Here's one on how Mexican cartels use it [2]. If anything this means we'll need a bigger army. How is abuse going to be abolished through a system literally designed to prevent any form of controls?
[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/north-korea-increasingly-uses...
[2] https://www.ccn.com/how-mexican-cartels-use-chinese-crypto-b...