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Re:Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown by toomuchtodo on Saturday September 23, 2023 @11:14AM (#37624002)
Issue them digital wallets to enable holding global reserve currencies. It is an AML/KYC problem. Imagine if, just for the sake of argument, any of these unbanked folks in countries you mentioned could install something like TransferWise (which app doesn’t matter, but the ability to tie your identity to your account holding various value stores) and hold whichever currency they wanted digitally. No stablecoin, CBDC, or blockchain required.
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Re:Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown by hanniabu on Saturday September 23, 2023 @11:21AM (#37624067)
Maybe they'd rather have censorship resistant funds, rather than a wallet that a government can freeze at any time.
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Re:Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown by toomuchtodo on Saturday September 23, 2023 @11:23AM (#37624086)
Good point, crypto never gets stolen or lost, very secure.

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/charts/top (“$68,004,906,103 has been lost to hacks, scams, fraud, and other disasters since January 1, 2021.”)

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Re:Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown by LeeroyWasHere on Saturday September 23, 2023 @11:30AM (#37624154)
We only know this because we can track it.

Would love to see how much money PayPal and stripe freeze on a yearly basis.

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Re:Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown by dale_glass on Saturday September 23, 2023 @11:41AM (#37624258)
By the same token, exchanges will also freeze funds.

If you want to avoid that you have to follow the original Bitcoin vision where everyone had their own node, but I don't think anybody actually works like that these days, to a very small rounding error. Everything interacts with some sort of very centralized service that can screw you over.

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Re:Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown by everfree on Saturday September 23, 2023 @02:28PM (#37625967)
Centralized node services cannot screw you over other than refusing to provide service. Even when using a centralized node, your wallet still manages its own keys.
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Re:Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown by dale_glass on Sunday September 24, 2023 @05:26AM (#37631457)
Exchanges can keep your money. NFT marketplaces like Opensea can refuse to sell your stuff or refuse to give the author royalties.

Yeah, you can theoretically operate without any of that. Just pretty much nobody does.

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Re:Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown by toomuchtodo on Saturday September 23, 2023 @11:30AM (#37624160)
Somehow I doubt it’s ~$20B/year, which would put it at parity with crypto losses.
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Re:Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown by kikimora on Saturday September 23, 2023 @05:28PM (#37627720)
One country recently seized 300B of funds of another country. Not necessarily a bad thing but still…
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