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Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

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Re: Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

#31
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically one of the exact reasons why Crypto should exist.

Yeah, let's destroy financial systems of governments and substitute it with a system that has 7 tps cap in which the majority of coins belongs to unknown entities (supposedly of criminal origin).

Poor finance guys, they have it so rough.

Re: Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

#32
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically one of the exact reasons why Crypto should exist.

Yeah, let's destroy financial systems of governments and substitute it with a system that has 7 tps cap in which the majority of coins belongs to unknown entities (supposedly of criminal origin).

In fairness, "the majority of coins belong to unknown entities (supposedly of criminal origin)" is only a small rephrasing away from a description of Erdogan's government / political party [0]. And they are scarier for Turkish citizens than BTC, since he also aggressively punishes dissent and is a de-facto dictator [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_corruption_scandal_in_Tur...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan#Auth...

Re: Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, let's destroy financial systems of governments and substitute it with a system that has 7 tps cap in which the majority of coins belongs to unknown entities (supposedly of criminal origin).

Bitcoin was never supposed to be capped at 7 transactions per second, there are no technical reasons for that limit to exist anymore (it was added in 2010 as a temporary measure). Until (if) Bitcoin BTC decides to scale people can use the Bitcoin Cash [0] fork, which today has ~32 times more capacity, with a roadmap to continue scaling to universal usage while keeping fees low [1]. [0] https://bitcoincash.org/ [1] ht…

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Re: Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

#34
post #23

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The first thing would be to ban free exchange of foreign currencies. But that would be hard to do in the tourist country.

After turning the country into a dictatorship, regularly arresting and torturing foreign tourists, and now corona, I doubt that there are any tourists left at all.

It’s one of the most popular tourist destinations. The only issue is COVID.

Re: Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

#35
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically one of the exact reasons why Crypto should exist.

Yeah, let's destroy financial systems of governments and substitute it with a system that has 7 tps cap in which the majority of coins belongs to unknown entities (supposedly of criminal origin).

You don't need an on-chain transaction for most things, as you can just instantly send BTC over Lightning Network, a second layer on the BTC blockchain. There's no speed limit, it's not on the chain, only nodes between you and the node you paying are involved. It's pretty neat.

Re: Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

#36
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first thing would be to ban free exchange of foreign currencies. But that would be hard to do in the tourist country.

After turning the country into a dictatorship, regularly arresting and torturing foreign tourists, and now corona, I doubt that there are any tourists left at all.

Tourist arrested ?? That would be terrorist not tourist. We dont have cops like in usa that kill people bu sitting their throat

Re: Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

#37
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically one of the exact reasons why Crypto should exist.

Yeah, let's destroy financial systems of governments and substitute it with a system that has 7 tps cap in which the majority of coins belongs to unknown entities (supposedly of criminal origin).

Sure, if you're in a developed country with proper economical policy and access to an open banking system, your argument stands.

But if you're in a country where your money have been dropping 10% per annum for the last 10 years, and where the concentration is anyway not that different from bitcoin, then things start to make more sense.

Also, most people in this situation are not looking for a day to day transactional currency, but rather for a store of value to hedge against their falling native currency.

Re: Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

#39
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically one of the exact reasons why Crypto should exist.

Yeah, let's destroy financial systems of governments and substitute it with a system that has 7 tps cap in which the majority of coins belongs to unknown entities (supposedly of criminal origin).

Lightning and sidechains can handle thousands of TPS. Monero has adaptive block sizes, and is estimated to be able to perform 1500-2000TPS.

Privacy is a feature, not a bug. I don't want people knowing how much money I have.

Re: Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

#40
So because of the Lira loosing it's value, they probably noticed a lot of people trying to get away and save themselves by buying some crypto.

They are printing too much money for the rich and not helping/saving anyone and want to block all from getting away.

That's probably not gonna work. Banning something has proven to never work in history.

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