I want to clarify what the etiquette is. Is it acceptable to flag a submission if I think it's deranged nonsense?
Yes.
Is Putin’s end game the roll out of a domestic CBDC?
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#42This is a sobering perspective for all digital currency advocates: State-owned digital currency can lead to total control of population. Putin doesn't want Ukraine, he wants to isolate Russians to better control them.
Won’t alternative forms (e.g. good old fashion barter) spring up if the existing government back centralized method of value exchange becomes too repressive?
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#43This article is proof that you're deep enough into crypto, you lose the ability to see any event through any other lens. Putin's actions in Ukraine are not a great mystery, and do not require a conspiracy to impose a CBDC to explain. Putin and his circle are in complete control of Russia and Russian politics and face no meaningful domestic opposition. He has no requirement to manufacture a war or other crisis to chan…
>This article is proof that you're deep enough into crypto, you lose the ability to see any event through any other lens.
The crypto community is so bad about that.
You'd think some of these folks just looked outside their window for the first time and know nothing else.
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#44I want to clarify what the etiquette is. Is it acceptable to flag a submission if I think it's deranged nonsense?
I do.
Some articles are just way too wrong on a fundamental level that whatever it is they want to say is useless IMO / it's just noise.
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#45Doh! The reference to gosbankification should have tipped me off. People, this is satire by Izabella Kaminska, formerly of the Financial Times.
Now I feel bad that it's been flagged.
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#46Re: Is Putin’s end game the roll out of a domestic CBDC?
#47Doh! The reference to gosbankification should have tipped me off. People, this is satire by Izabella Kaminska, formerly of the Financial Times. Now I feel bad that it's been flagged.
Poe's law hits hard here.
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#49Izabella Kaminska... I always had a laugh about her features at FT I am glad she is doing the same shit posting at her own outlet. I am still not sure if she tries to do satire or if she is serious but you have to give it to her she is entertaining.
Izabella didn't write it - the top line mentions it is a guest post. > IK – I’ve received a guest submission from an informed source that I can vouch for (to some degree). The author wishes to remain anonymous but what I can tell you is that he runs a global technology company from the UK and has close family and assets in both Russia and in China.
> Izabella didn't write it
Yeah, no. Nobody else would think of slipping in gosbankification. This is Izabella trolling everyone.
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#50This makes about as much sense as "Is Putin's end game to stop global warming by forcing Europe to move to green energy?"
No sense at all.