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Re: US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation

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Post by sofixa »

tomjen3 wrote: post #160
weego wrote: post #74

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As a neurodivergent person in tech, mentoring and MH support, I've met a number of similarly ND people who are indeed convinced that human scale problems are just issues we've not solved with technology yet.

That is so obviously true that denying it is like denying evolution. If we had one of the those shields from Star Trek, we wouldn't have to worry about NK.

You should look into MAD, and why the USSR and USA signed a treaty restricting anti-missile defenses. If any country was close to getting ironclad missile shields, it's adversaries would probably act preemptively.

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Post by boomboomsubban »

kyleplum wrote: post #318
boomboomsubban wrote: post #308

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Yes, however the severity of the violation is dependent on the influence of the violator. Cuba's violation would be wrong but mostly meaningless compared to the US's.

Would it not be a violation of Cuba's National Autonomy to force them to trade with partner's that they did not wish to trade with?

Yes, but I don't see how that's relevant. Not banning trade doesn't force the countries to trade, it just gives them the choice.

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Post by adfhdfhdryheryh »

bell-cot wrote: post #206
danielvf wrote: post #71

According to the original complaint, a few months after being interviewed by an FBI agent on returning from his trip to North Korea, Griffith had the following conversation over text messages: Griffith: I need to send 1 [REDACTED UNIT OF CRYPTOCURRENCY] between North and South Korea. Other Guy: "Isn't that in violations of sanctions?" Griffith: It is. A few day later, also in text messages to someone else: Someone: W…

How far down the "flew 8,000 miles to get there, climbed over the barbed wire fence, licked both his thumbs, and pressed them against the shiny parts labeled 'DANGER! 25,000 VOLTS!'..." rabbit-hole-of-stupid should one have to go, before it's 100% okay for me to stop caring whether or not his sentence was just?

This might qualify as high treason, as defined in the Constitution rather as used as an insult. The U.S. and North Korea are still technically at war, and this act was definitely aiding the North Korean government.

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Post by yazantapuz »

wspess wrote: post #285
yazantapuz wrote: post #261

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This. A lot of people seems to think that the USA bans everyone in the world to trade with cuba, even if they could buy an Havann Club in the store.

While USA does not ban everyone from doing trade with Cuba, USA does ban everyone who trades with Cuba from doing trade with the US. You can clearly see how this creates insentives for not trading with Cuba and instead trading with the far larger market next to it.

A lot of countries do international trade with Cuba. USA is not banning everyone who trades with Cuba. I can go to any licor store in my country and buy a bottle of Cuban ron, for example.

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Post by chaosite »

user3939382 wrote: post #301
axlee wrote: post #275

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> As a means of forcing someone to unwillingly settle a dispute in your favor that is. what kind of strange take it is? What do you think war is ?

Someone recently explained their view, that sanctions are akin to siege warfare in days of old. Whether you agree with that analogy or not, there is an underlying valid point that not all warfare requires physical violence. We use the term cyber warfare as another example.

Cyber-warfare is in most instances comparable to sabotage as used in warfare.

I can see the point you're making about sanctions being similar to siege warfare. The main difference being that sieges separate you from your own forces and allies in a way that sanctions don't.

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Post by [deleted] »

afarrell wrote: post #329
javajosh wrote: post #296

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It sucks but the world seems to punish people who are honest (like this guy) and help people who lie (like everyone who did what this guy did and lied about it). In the same vein, police get away with brutal abuse because they know what lies to tell to justify it ("I felt afraid for my life", etc). But the police would not get away with it if they told the truth, ("They showed me disrespect and I knew I wasn't going…

It similarly sucks that our justice system punishes the clumsy criminals and lets the really skillfully sneaky ones go unpunished. Nobody has yet faced charges for robbing the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

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Re: US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation

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Post by yakak »

outworlder wrote: post #297
levi-turner wrote: post #171

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Source for those curious about this: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1222646...

It is interesting that the cryptocurrency in question is not named (simply referred to as "Cryptocurrency-1"). Possibly because there are ongoing investigations about it? If this was bitcoin, they would likely state that.

It being eth would seem to match their narrative he was an expert. Maybe it was eth hence their narrative or maybe they redacted it for not being eth.

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Post by HyperRational »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #311
AlexCoventry wrote: post #243

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That's not the case with North Korea. Most people don't have access to computers, let alone the internet, so they can't use crypto for their personal finances.

Really? Most households have a cell phone, though internet access is spotty.

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