Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by cft on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @02:56PM
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Crypto is also a white supremacy tool: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/02/05/the-charm...
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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by BLKNSLVR on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:35PM
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The flipside viewpoint is that cryptocurrency bypasses censorability by large corporates; cryptocurrency embodies the freedoms that appear to be espoused so loudly and delightedy by "the US"^.
Guns = good
Cryptocurrency = bad
Opinions I agree with = good
Opinions I disagree with = bad
Me getting mine = good
Someone else getting theirs = bad
Censorship is the battleground issue for the 2020's.
^Apologies for the lumping of 300 million people into a single sentence description, it's for the sake of trying to make a point of the entanglement of "the US" and "freedom" - which isn't a bad thing.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by fleddr on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:10PM
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Yeah, that's why Bitcoin grows fastest in Africa.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by capableweb on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @04:51PM
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Lots of tools that are useful for marginalized groups are also useful for marginalized groups that want to spread hate. Same goes for the internet. It was hard in the beginning on internet mainstream (late 90s/early 00s) to find any community that didn't have a bunch of racists and fascists in it as well.