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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by phone8675309 on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:12PM (#29235353)
Holy fucking strawman, Batman!

Way to skip over the different potentials for abuse and just dive to the cryptonerd's handwaive argument.

Looking forward to your insights about rubber and glue.

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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by vb6sp6 on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:33PM (#29236018)
"bitcoin is for illegal things" is the OG handwaive argument so nothing substantial was needed to swat it down :)
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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by phone8675309 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @08:38AM (#29240398)
There you go strawmanning again.

The claim wasn’t "BitCoin is for illegal things (and by comparison, USD is never used for crime)", it was "BitCoin's lack of support for KYC makes it more likely to be attractive to criminals and therefore likely to have its use criminalized" which you CAN'T just hand waive away.

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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by vb6sp6 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @09:25AM (#29240871)
I can trade stacks of USD without any KYC.
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