Re:Coronavirus is not a good argument for quitting cash
by kd5bjo on Saturday March 21, 2020 @06:00AM
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It’s a war on cryptography, not cryptocurrency. Governments have gotten addicted to being able to intercept communications and feel threatened by any technology that might prevent them from doing that. This leads to all the positive uses being threatened because it’s extremely hard (or maybe impossible) to cripple nefarious uses without collateral damage to legitimate ones.
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Re:Coronavirus is not a good argument for quitting cash
by IAmEveryone on Saturday March 21, 2020 @07:06AM
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Yeah, I may or may not have made the embarrassing mistake of misinterpreting which definition of “crypto” was intended. Although “encryption” would seem more natural under your interpretation?
I’d still object to the overused “war on..” phrasing for what’s a standard disagreement on policy. But substantively it’s obviously hard to deny that at least the US government is working against encryption.
Re:Coronavirus is not a good argument for quitting cash
by majewsky on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:31AM
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The word "war on crypto" (or rather, "crypto wars") is well-established and has been for at least 25 years, possibly longer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars