China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining

Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining by village-idiot on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:22PM (#19618573)

You can change the definition of B all you want, it's still a formal fallacy, meaning the argument is literally worthless. You have to structure a very different argument from what you've shown to assert that bitcoin would reduce national military expenditures, not just tweak the details.

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Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining by village-idiot on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:40PM (#19627559)

> it's not about definition of A and B, it's about structure of the sentence

I agree! And the structure of the argument is fundamentally invalid.

> there is no need to do this dance of yours with logic and fallacies

... Oh, I guess we don't agree.

> it's really a truism

"I don't have an argument, but I believe it very strongly".

> you are trying to confuse people and/or push some agenda

Accusing those who disagree with you of pushing an "agenda" is both a bad argument and bad etiquette. Stop.

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Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining by keymone on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:41PM (#19629084)

> Accusing those who disagree with you

but you don't just disagree, you make convoluted invalid arguments. there is no logical fallacy in

> if maintaining fiat value requires spending resources then not having to maintain fiat value means there is no need to spend resources to maintain fiat value

it's indeed a case of:

> "I don't have an argument, but I believe it very strongly".

but on your part.

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