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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by ks2048 on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @02:21PM (#43624884)
If you're thinking worst-case scenarios - what about if the government simply puts you in a cell and beats you until you give them your crypto keys?

The only hope for any system is if the people fight to not live within these kinds of fascist states. Crypto is not some magic solution - and has a lot of downsides which are mentioned often.

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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by matheusmoreira on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @02:26PM (#43624945)
> what about if the government simply puts you in a cell and beats you until you give them your crypto keys?

The thought does occur to me. Quite frequently in fact.

My parents lived through the military dictatorship. They once asked me to stop posting online because they were afraid I'd become some kind of target. I'm not kidding.

> The only hope for any system is if the people fight to not live within these kinds of fascist systems.

Brazilians in general tend to agree with you. That's the end game of quite a lot of brazilians. "The only solution for this place is the airport", they say.

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