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Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by Scoundreller »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #181
Scoundreller wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Problem is leaving at the airport, if they check and see your entry isn’t registered anywhere. Still could work if you plan on staying forever, hiking out, or flying private because only normies can do bad things and need to have their movements subject to scrutiny.

> flying private because only normies can do bad things and need to have their movements subject to scrutiny You still go through customs when flying private.

Supposed to anyway.

Are they expecting every Cessna 172 travelling out-of-country to depart from one of their two international airports?

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by eric_cc »

HDThoreaun wrote: post #280
eric_cc wrote: post #277

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And what’s the main use of cash from the perspective of the US government? And what makes cash have value? And what has been the history of money thus far that has led to this junction?

Transacting for goods and services. Cash has value because you get arrested if you don’t have enough to pay taxes.

I totally agree. Cash has value because it’s backed by violence.

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by notch898a »

Scoundreller wrote: post #281
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> flying private because only normies can do bad things and need to have their movements subject to scrutiny You still go through customs when flying private.

Supposed to anyway. Are they expecting every Cessna 172 travelling out-of-country to depart from one of their two international airports?

I have a feeling most of the way it happens is someone just says they are going to a border town and just ... don't stop. IF the pilot doesn't care about losing his license (i.e. they're being paid Do Kwon kind of money) and those on the flight manifest aren't returning, doesn't seem like there's much they'd be able to do.

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by mrguyorama »

steveBK123 wrote: post #251
lazzlazzlazz wrote: post #249

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Terra was centralized garbage from the beginning. Serious players in the crypto industry did not take it seriously.

Right. No one. It didn’t help bring about the demise of one of the biggest US crypto exchanges?

I wish the history of my finances were this easy to rewrite on a whim

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by mrguyorama »

a4isms wrote: post #211
ForHackernews wrote: post #198

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Our randian cryptoheroes have no use for your trifling government-issued "fiat" documents. My transit visa exists forever on the eternal blockchain!

Keep up, What we actually do when travelling is use a Tornado Mixer. We slice ourselves into thousands of pieces and those pieces are semi-randomly mixed with the pieces of other crypto heroes, who travel by different routes. Only after reaching our final destination are we un-mixed, and sometimes not even that. By the way, I love having one brown arm and one pink arm.

Even better, now nobody knows which parts of you are criminal and which parts of you are innocent, so no doubt you get treated like an angel by everyone!

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by mrguyorama »

eric_cc wrote: post #282
HDThoreaun wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Transacting for goods and services. Cash has value because you get arrested if you don’t have enough to pay taxes.

I totally agree. Cash has value because it’s backed by violence.

Oh no the state has a monopoly on violence what a bad thing. I much prefer the natural way where your right to property ends at the tip of my spear.

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Post by CPLX »

eric_cc wrote: post #282
HDThoreaun wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Transacting for goods and services. Cash has value because you get arrested if you don’t have enough to pay taxes.

I totally agree. Cash has value because it’s backed by violence.

Everything privately held that has value is backed by the threat of violence.

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by dredmorbius »

gorbachev wrote: post #273
dredmorbius wrote: post #100

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From the DOJ link above, first paragraph: DILKINSKA was extradited from Bulgaria yesterday and will be presented before United States Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn later today. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged... > She is in US custody.

The head of compliance of OneCoin was extradited. Not Ruja Ignatova herself.

Doh! I'd glossed over that.

Thanks, and I stand corrected.

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by Jolter »

ashwagary wrote: post #272
rippercushions wrote: post #236

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Satoshi's coins have sat untouched since pretty much the beginning, so no, they certainly have not been able to make any use of them.

>they certainly have not been able to make any use of them. That cannot be said with 100% certainty since transfer of ownership doesnt require an onchain transaction and secondly, funds aside, signing with his keys (aka proof of identity) is extremely valuable to a large % of the Bitcoin whale community. Many whales would send Satoshi millions of dollars just for the act of signing with those keys, no strings attache…

This sounds extremely speculative. I expect that's why you're being downvoted. Exotic crypto conspiracies are not very popular on HN.
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