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Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by r00fus on Saturday September 14, 2019 @12:57PM (#20972093)
mrb's comment that "we will block Libra and we will not block Bitcoin* as some sort of tacit approval is bullshit.

Bitcoin is tolerated because it's not centralized, and no one (obvious) entity is controlling it. If the EU governments could, they totally would ban Bitcoin.

Libra, on the other hand, is a power grab by someone they can regulate, so they will.

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Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by mrb on Saturday September 14, 2019 @01:25PM (#20972325)
Bitcoin being "tolerated" is more accurate than "approved of". That's what I mean.

And again, if they didn't tolerate it, they could ban/outlaw it, just like China did.

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Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by Erlich_Bachman on Saturday September 14, 2019 @01:06PM (#20972178)
So you're basically agreeing with the parent comment? (Just have some disagreement about governments underlying motivations?)
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