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Re:Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for ... by cdiddy2 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:43AM (#30086836)
I am fairly sure there would be constitutional issues with banning it. After all its just some characters/a string. We went through a lot of this with the cryptography wars in the 90s
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Re:Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for ... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:22PM (#30088447)
The law is not a computer system. Illegal numbers[0] are a thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

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Re:Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for ... by oneoff786 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @07:42PM (#30094416)
Even if that were true, the government need only block the exchanges which are a financial service.
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Re:Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for ... by oconnore on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:14PM (#30091066)
Bitcoin clearly qualifies as "interstate commerce".
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Re:Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for ... by Spivak on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:15AM (#30087331)
Something something color of your bits. And even if you somehow managed to convince someone that a digital asset was speech you still have to contend that commercial speech isn't as protected.
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