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Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

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Re: Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

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Post by aww_dang »

Interesting how this narrative is forming. Politicians and bureaucrats around the globe are saying the same things in unison.

BTC is framed as destructive or dangerous and CBDC is their solution.

The same conclusion was arrived at in a recent Senate hearing chaired by Elizabeth Warren. Three out of four of her panelists had connections to the World Economic Forum. The fourth had connections to the US central bank.

https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/building-a-stronger-...

https://www.weforum.org/people/neha-narula

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/darrell-duffie

https://digitaldollarproject.org/

Re: Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

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Post by wsc981 »

ludamad wrote: post #8
Darmody wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or any other fiat currency. I want to see blockchain gone but most legislators don't understand it, they think it should be gone but they are not sure why so they end up with nonsense like this.

It's also a bit ill-timed as Bitcoin is "now a fiat currency", if you go by El Salvador's wiki page

> It's also a bit ill-timed as Bitcoin is "now a fiat currency", if you go by El Salvador's wiki page

It's probably timed right now by the Dutch CPB because El Salvador accepted BTC as a fiat currency.

Re: Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

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Post by wardb »

neals wrote: post #10

This is the 'Centraal Plan Bureau'. If you open up the front door, you're met with a cloud of dust. The parkinglot is filled with oldtimers and the interior is very 'that 70's show'.

This description is too funny :) It does have a high amount of old man screaming at the cloud. You can have a lot of valid critical views of cryptocurrency (environmental impact / gambling aspect ), but this his view is very unhelpful

Does CPB actually has anything to say here? I was expecting "De Nederlandse Bank" to be the organisation to set the rules here.

Re: Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

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Post by rualca »

neals wrote: post #10

This is the 'Centraal Plan Bureau'. If you open up the front door, you're met with a cloud of dust. The parkinglot is filled with oldtimers and the interior is very 'that 70's show'.

> The parkinglot is filled with oldtimers and the interior is very 'that 70's show'.

Could you please explain how that ad-hominem based on blatant ageism does anything to refute the points regarding the nature of cryptocurrencies?

Re: Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

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Post by kokx »

Part of his (reported) reasoning is really strange: because Bitcoin is doomed to crash, we have to take action, so the Netherlands should ban it. Causing it to crash earlier rather than later.

He also says that he isn't afraid that banning Bitcoin will fail, because a ban would lead to a crash.

Re: Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

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Post by ipaddr »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #15
jdmoreira wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically true! But it is backed by a very powerful commercial empire who also happens to have the worlds largest military.

Does that military count towards the US dollar's impact on the climate?

Yes but it might be positive. Did that surprise you?

Re: Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

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Post by rualca »

aww_dang wrote: post #21

Interesting how this narrative is forming. Politicians and bureaucrats around the globe are saying the same things in unison. BTC is framed as destructive or dangerous and CBDC is their solution. The same conclusion was arrived at in a recent Senate hearing chaired by Elizabeth Warren. Three out of four of her panelists had connections to the World Economic Forum. The fourth had connections to the US central bank. ht…

> BTC is framed as destructive or dangerous and CBDC is their solution.

It's hard to refute their point when we've just saw bitcoin tanking and seeing its value drop to half in a few days.

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