Why do people feel the need to deliberately mislead by leaving out all the important details? I had no idea what you were talking about, so I looked it up, it's the second item under https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Lagarde#Controvers....
Regardless of your opinions on that particular court case, or the fact that the letter of your statement may be true, do you honestly think "The European Central Bank chairwoman is a felon convicted for massive government payouts" would give the average reader an accurate view of what happen? Because after reading what actually happened, and which IMO comes nowhere near to the deliberate malfeasance you imply, I just conclude that, to put it colloquially, "You're full of shit."
absolutely. Your wikipedia link is absolutely clear :
"the court found Lagarde guilty of negligence"
So, she is a convicted felon for conveniently looking the other way. Some of course may question whether the 400M euro is "massive" these days...
P.s. "My currency is signed by my own private key, yours - by a convicted felon". Whom would you trust more?
P.S. Also, how come you can use such language ("You're full of shit.") and not be banned? Could a moderator take a stance on this one? I don't see the flag button for some reason.
If KYC/AML is not possible in the bitcoin world, you're not going to be getting a world with bitcoin that doesn't have KYC/AML.
You're going to get a world with no bitcoin.
The real analogy here is that the ultra rich needn’t deal with the TSA because they fly private.
Just because the response is a bad one doesn't mean that the problem doesn't exist.
FWIW, even if TSA is bad at stopping terrorists, I AM glad that all of these people punching flight attendants are, with certainty c. 1, not packing heat.
Seriously, how often does this happen? I've flown a fair amount in my life (in Europe though) and I've never seen any commotion on a plane. I've read about some incidents, but I've read about a lot of fucked up stuff that I'm not concerned about in my life.
It's along the lines with everything these days. Someone does something bad and someone else gets shocked and then everyone wants to stop something like that from happening ever again, through whatever means, without realizing the incredible inconvenience (and complexity) this causes over time when repeated ad infinitum.
If only 1% of those people were armed, that would still be very very scary!
Real dangerous criminals don't give a damn about KYC/AML laws and operate freely within the banking framework. The European Central Bank chairwoman is a felon convicted for massive government payouts.