Not the parent, but given the alternatives of which I'm aware, I'm ok with this. It's going to be someone, the US is the least worst afaik. And this is still the case even though I disagree with a lot of stuff the US government and it's voters choose to do.
tell that to ukrainians being bombed with iranian Shaheds every day.
some interesting nonsense on HN some days.
It's more like any dictator/autocrat who wants to stay in power by threatening the world will work on it. That isn't good for the world. Your statement is not a value judgement or even interested in first or second order effects of such a decision, so is essentially useless in evaluating whether something is good or bad.
There are systemic issues and I’m no friend of the USA but crypto isn’t in anyway addressing the gripes about the current state of the world.
Most importantly: the idea that technology is going to fix things is ludicrous and it shows that people don’t understand the power of politics, governments and legislations.
Then crypto must be a great thing for the world, unless you believe that might makes right and it's okay for the US to boss the rest of the world around about who they can and cannot do business with. It's completely crazy, it's the US that massacred hundreds of thousands of civilians in the middle east, yet somehow the US has the moral right to force other countries not to trade with Iran, which has mostly minded its own business.
>That would make the world a better place.
Clearly your idea of making the world a better place is making it a world where the US has even more power, something that many other countries would disagree is an improvement. Just imagine, for people in parts of the Middle East every day was like 9/11, with US plans and drones flying in unstoppably, blowing up their friends and relatives.