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Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by queuebert on Thursday August 15, 2024 @08:52AM (#41255367)
Wait til you hear about this new startup called Google. They are going to launch yet another search engine. I doubt there's much money in it, though. They'll be lucky to make a few million.
Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by diggan on Thursday August 15, 2024 @08:56AM (#41255417)
How much physical cash (actual notes/bills) do you think Google founders have in their home? Close to $175 million?

Not that that justifies anything, people should be free to keep as much physical cash as they want.

Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by echoangle on Thursday August 15, 2024 @09:59AM (#41256149)
Are you missing the point on purpose? The suspicious thing isn’t that he has money, it’s that he’s storing the money physically as cash in his home. You think Google has a safe at the HQ filled with dollar notes?
Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by dmantis on Thursday August 15, 2024 @10:28AM (#41256549)
Sounds pretty logical in a world where banking secrecy doesn't exist and most banks are compliant with a single jurisdiction which doesn't respects other ones.

Don't see what's wrong to preserve your property outside of the modern banking system if you are against the US.

Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by echoangle on Thursday August 15, 2024 @11:26AM (#41257171)
I’m not even necessarily agreeing that it’s suspicious (ok, it is a bit suspicious but not so weird that I would immediately proclaim that he’s guilty), I just don’t think it’s productive to post sarcastic comments rebutting strawman arguments. If the commenter wanted to say that having a lot of cash isn’t suspicious, they should have just said that instead of making a point about google making a lot of money, too.
Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by finikytou on Thursday August 15, 2024 @02:50PM (#41259189)
he got banned from banks before and he doesnt want his money seized. anyone with the slightest understand of how us government operates would understand why hes storing the money physically.. Even bitcoiners do it....