Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant

Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by DeathArrow on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @08:28AM (#43620920)

This is not a good argument. We can't forbid everything just because it can be used by criminals.

By the same thinking we should forbid cash, too.

We have two ways:

Give up all freedoms, forbid anything and transform the society into a mass surveillance society where everyone spies everyone, where is no anonimity and no privacy.

Or require law enforcement to do a better jobs without people giving up their freedoms.

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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by RHSeeger on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @11:26AM (#43622922)

There is a pretty big gray area in there. Literally every society on the planet has some form of "giving up their freedoms" in exchange for some amount of security. I would argue that it's impossible to have a stable society without that. The thing that's important is deciding which rights are worth protecting and which ones are ok to give up in exchange for security (or other reasons, presumably).

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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @06:06PM (#43626946)

And it's not as if crypto is particularly anonymous. Transaction analysis will identify you unless you work hard at covering your tracks.

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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by neves on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:08PM (#43628285)

Maybe you can if the main use of a coin is for ransomware or drug traficking

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