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Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by darawk on Saturday February 05, 2022 @03:21PM (#30225477)
Or we could just have a politically neutral monetary system in the first place. Imagine that.
Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by wyldfire on Saturday February 05, 2022 @03:23PM (#30225496)
The money's pretty neutral but brokers like GoFundMe aren't and IMO shouldn't be compelled to be.
Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by darawk on Saturday February 05, 2022 @03:27PM (#30225554)
I agree with that, except in cases where the number of brokers is small and monopolistic. That's not strictly true for platforms like gofundme, but it is true for payment processors, who are the real choke points in the ecosystem.

My issue with Gofundme isn't that they aren't politically neutral, it's that they took the money first, and then just decided to hold it hostage. Had they not accepted the trucker's money, or just refunded all the donors, or disbursed the funds to the org and then refused to accept anymore, any of those things would have been fine. But what they are doing here is tantamount to theft, and that I do believe brokers should be compelled not to do.

Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by password4321 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:43PM (#30228797)
They are compelled not to discriminate against protected classes.
Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by cortesoft on Saturday February 05, 2022 @03:39PM (#30225719)
I mean, we do? Dollar bills are politically neutral.
Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by timeon on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:11PM (#30226094)
This rules out Bitcoin.