Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
by cdiddy2 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @04:35PM
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The US sanctioned them, they can't use dollars or euros
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
by Mehringotio on Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:08PM
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In this case it's our responsibility not to undermine those sanctions.
While I'm not an expert in Afghanistan politics, I follow the Russian war and don't think we should support them by providing bitcoins
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
by cdiddy2 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:19PM
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So you think people should starve rather than use bitcoin?
What about using it to support democracy in Russia? https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/navalny-ally-urges-dono...
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
by Mehringotio on Friday May 13, 2022 @02:55AM
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I voted for a political party and I'm not an expert in foreign affairs.i don't have the insight necessary.
Therefore it's not my place to break sanctions my country opposes onto another.
No one.
Don't use a strawman argument.
And independent of this issue: there are of course things which are objectively better for that person in Afghanistan and objectively better for everyone.
Your poor Afghanistan person might like to have less heat waves than Bitcoin because he might not have enough money anyway to save it away as Bitcoin.
Normally those countries use dollar or euro anyway. It's much easier for them than being able to remember a Bitcoin wallet