Re:The political case for a blanket cryptocurrency ban
by celticninja on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:19PM
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What's the issue with Iran using it? Or is it that Iran are just "bad guys" therefore if they use it must be bad.
In that basis let's get rid of nuclear power because Iran use that. I think they also have the internet so while we are at it let's get rid of that.
Re:The political case for a blanket cryptocurrency ban
by chrischen on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:40PM
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> In that basis let's get rid of nuclear power because Iran use that.
That’s exactly what they did.
Re:The political case for a blanket cryptocurrency ban
by celticninja on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:14AM
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Exactly what who did?
Re:The political case for a blanket cryptocurrency ban
by chrischen on Sunday April 04, 2021 @06:07AM
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US and allies got rid of nuclear power for Iran.
Re:The political case for a blanket cryptocurrency ban
by Nasrudith on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:17PM
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Can we actually show that nuclear weapons are bad for the environment? Obviously there is a baseline production cost and various detonation costs plus issues of trying to get a scalar judgement from a complex systtem but they could perversely be helpful theoretially by stopping other polluting activities.
Isn't it perversely possible that the environmental impact of another two more Iraq War scale conflicts plus end of ongoing middle east presence means that ironically Bitcoin and nuclear weapons combined could help the environment net in comparison.
Sort of the logic behind a joke "They say that nuclear weapons kept the cold war cold, they say want peace in the middle east yet when I give Palestine Iran and Palestine nuclear ICBMs suddenly I am now the bad guy here?"
Re:The political case for a blanket cryptocurrency ban
by boc on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:41AM
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When 99% of people say "good for the environment" it's implied that the point of protecting the environment is to sustain human life on Earth. Nuclear conflict is not compatible with sustainable human life.
> Iranian thinktanks have also emphasized the need for the nation’s government to use cryptocurrencies to circumvent US-led international sanctions. It now appears that the Office of President Hassan Rouhani has become more serious about using crypto. [2]
A rapidly growing percent of nuclear weapons proliferation is being funded by crypto. That's way worse for the planet than crime performed using cash.
[1] https://www.coindesk.com/doj-charges-3-north-korean-hackers-...
[2] https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2021/03/172786-iran-is-repo...