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Re:Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game by sprafa on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:26PM (#20278532)
I saw him in person in london and he was asked about Bitcoin. As the last sentence of his answer he said and I’m paraphrasing: “If you’re asking about the idea of apolitical money [in relation to Bitcoin] I think that’s a fantasy”. I’ll try and see if he ever said something similar in other settings but I remember connecting it to what I was reading around the same time which was David Graeber’s Debt: a History book where he presents a similar anthropological-historical argument.
Re:Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game by Lordarminius on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:53PM (#20278831)
I was thinking in part about the bit where you claim bitcoin is manipulated by Tether/Bitfinex
Re:Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game by Macross8299 on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:33PM (#20279761)
There's a number of people who make this claim, some of them leaning towards more credible [0], some hysterical [1].

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/bitcoin-price-...

[1]: https://medium.com/@bitfinexed