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Drugs are illegal for Americans to buy, sell, and produce.

Laws are how you prevent this.

Can you imagine the Massachusetts Steamship Authority paying in cocaine?

Why would paying in Bitcoin be any different?

Bitcoin is parroted largely by a bunch of libertarian speculative grifters that think they're above the authority of our government to manage the monetary supply. They want to soak up all the advantages of building and controlling an economy.

If you look through the covers, it's all speculation and hype. There's noting "decentralized" or "democratic" about it. Bitcoiners are fine with letting social services and the underserved slip through the cracks as long as they get their reward that they feel they earned.

The US is a democracy, and theoretically it helps people of all backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses. It might not be evenly distributed, but at least we can toss out the bad players. Bitcoin is not a democracy. It rewards the Ponzi schemers at the top and leaves everyone else out to dry.

And now look at what it's gotten us -- unprecedented crime from across international boarders that we can't stop. All brought to you by the remarkable "governmentless decentralization".

Just wait until the kidnappings start. Or the murders for hire.

Fucking good for nothing bitcoin. The world was better before it existed.



> Drugs are illegal for Americans to buy, sell, and produce.

Are you seriously using the war on drugs as an example of a successful policy? Drugs are easier to get and more numerous than ever, even though we have these magical laws in place for decades.


>Bitcoiners are fine with letting social services and the underserved slip through the cracks as long as they get their reward that they feel they earned.

What are you basing this on?




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