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FYI, after opening your page in the same tab (by accident) as HN, I couldn’t get back to HN, going back a page just ended up looping back to your site. I absolutely hate when websites do that (messing with expected behavior), please consider fixing it. (On iOS)
Either this was fixed 4 hours after your comment was posted, or the issue doesn't surface on Chrome on Linux or Android. I opened the site by clicking the link in the GP comment.
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While they are in fact receiving lots of BTC, one transaction sticks out (80 BTC, 2022-02-25 09:55:18 [3,067,846.41 USD]), I wonder who has that much BTC to give away like that. It is impressive, but raises a lot of questions.
Not really. There are plenty of low-profile high-net-worth miners with that much. I used to hang out in the cex.io chatroom back in 2014 and there were fat cat miners in there who would say "watch this" and then the price would quickly go down by several percentage points because their entire mining pool just sold. It seems quite plausible at least to me that one of these networks might decide to donate a large amoun…
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Your comment was flagged, i vouched for it so i can downvote and rebuke. No. Inaction is equal to support of the Russian invasion ( like in so many other cases). People have to decide for themselves what they want, where their morals lie, and how they want to act on that. Message of support? Donation? Whatever. Ignoring the problem only helps the war criminals. Don't critique people for daring to speak and act agains…
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You mean Taiwan
Thanks, it's amazing the things I know and still botch.
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And you, my dear pister, are waffling on the freedom to self-organize, and falling into the Kissinger trap. Soft power; Sickening thing. Once you have it you're responsible for everything. In this case, the U.S. trying to once again get entangled in another spat. Once you start binning which transactions are really appropriate to happen, you're de-facto making policy.
Now you’re just stringing random words together. What is the “Kissinger trap”? The topic was the freedom of an American corporation to not finance warfare. There is no moral or legal imperative for them to permit their users to finance a foreign country’s military, whether that country is an ally or adversary.
It leads to delegatory attitudes wherein people should cede agency to "the authorities" to broker things out and any type of personal agency being disencouraged or quashed.
Works great when people aren't interconnected to the degree we are now, but at the cost of the action potentials being much more strongly gated and open to the idiosyncracies of Heads of State, rather than genuine support across the populace.
Now you're faced with reality where funds can potentially be transfered somewhere they can do good. The reliance on a centralized facilitator is technically lower.
It'll be interesting to see if the "Game of Kings" plays out the same way when the pawns can signal betwixt themselves more easily.
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This is an example of whataboutism at its finest. Where is the 'call to military action' or 'call for violence' with guns or anything that is funding an active military campaign in your link? There is none. This is a 'private platform' doing private platform things and they can decide to do business with whoever they want to and will point to anything that breaks their ToS. Don't like it? Use cryptocurrencies for don…
“Whataboutism” is a really stupid name for the Socratic method.
"We don’t allow Patreon to be used for funding weapons or military activity." What is this then? https://www.patreon.com/search?q=guns
Even as Whataboutism goes that's pretty weak sauce.