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The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

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Re: The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

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Post by ddtaylor »

chain030 wrote: post #145
ddtaylor wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most governments aren't decentralized in their structure, which causes the "problem". If you have private entities that coordinate with each other it works quite well, but the world is very used to big centralized governments that "solve" all their problems.

And, so what? You've posted a whole load of nothing.

It's a pretty direct response to your claim that "decentralisation sounds nice, but doesn't work in practice". Decentralization has worked in practice many times in many ways.

Also, you can have reputability AND decentralization, that's actually a fundamental component of how any Blockchain system works. When you mine a block you sign it to ensure nobody else can resubmit your work and take credit.

Re: The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

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Post by ta1243 »

n0n0n4t0r wrote: post #17
Mistletoe wrote: post #13

Maybe in 2028 a presidential candidate can run with removing the Patriot Act as one of their campaign points. I suspect the world will be very different then. The America I knew, remembered, and loved started dying with the passage of the Patriot Act.

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Why not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1933_German_parliamen...

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Post by photonthug »

komali2 wrote: post #160
jordanb wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever leftists say that "Trump is a symptom of an illness that has been metastasizing for a long time" this is what we mean.

My big ask is, was it always this stupid? Like, all these huge historical events and figures, did it all go down as stupidly and clownishly as the modern USA? Was there an early 20th century fascist Europe equivalent to a man named Big Balls being beat up by children and a fascist police action being triggered as a result? Was there a Napeolonic era equivalent to a media figure known for making light of school shooti…

To know the answers to all of these questions, you should really check out the Bbehind the Bastards podcast because that is the whole premise. Covering the lead-up to horrible situations and the inevitable slide in fascism. It's insanely detailed about covering many, many stupid fascist bastards and a few smart ones.

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Post by mrguyorama »

yepitwas wrote: post #257

War on Terror AUMF is still in force and is why the President can just decide to bomb whatever country they want without asking for permission, now. All that shit after 9/11 was crazy and dangerous, and some of us said that at the time, and go figure, the fucking obviously true things we were saying have turned out to be... true. What a surprise.

People who protested this horse shit were called unamerican for christs sake. Bush Jr said the literal words "you are either with us, or against us". The right went into utter hysterics about France not wanting to help our BS invasion.

The right loves to say that violent rhetoric is the left's fault, while they wished us harm for not wanting to invade a random country in the middle east that wasn't even related to the terrorist attack.

Meanwhile, all that horseshit with the TSA only ever enriched a couple people connected to the admin.

Re: The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

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Post by photonthug »

komali2 wrote: post #160
jordanb wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever leftists say that "Trump is a symptom of an illness that has been metastasizing for a long time" this is what we mean.

My big ask is, was it always this stupid? Like, all these huge historical events and figures, did it all go down as stupidly and clownishly as the modern USA? Was there an early 20th century fascist Europe equivalent to a man named Big Balls being beat up by children and a fascist police action being triggered as a result? Was there a Napeolonic era equivalent to a media figure known for making light of school shooti…

To know the answers to all of these questions, you should really check out the Behind the Bastards podcast because that is the whole premise. Covering the lead-up to horrible situations and the inevitable slide in fascism. It's insanely detailed about covering many, many stupid fascist bastards and a few smart ones.

Re: The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

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Post by ddtaylor »

eof wrote: post #109
chain030 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Essentially decentralisation sounds nice, but doesnt work in practice.

Bitcoin, tor, bittorrent are all perfect examples of decentralization simply not working in practice

It's been terrible that BitTorrent doesn't work anymore. I can only download 10TB of all the movies and TV shows our family has ever wanted spanning 60 years. It has to run off this massive server in the closest as big as our cat! Sucks our grandma can't access it from across the country via Tailscale and a bit of DNS abuse.

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Post by immibis »

thrance wrote: post #108
lordofgibbons wrote: post #65

Bitcoin maximalists are learning that having a non-fungible and fully traceable ledger might be a problem. Even Satoshi called this out! As is, BTC is somewhat of a privacy nightmare. All of your transactions are on the public ledger for anyone with basic knowledge of statistics to correlate and see all of your transactions. Blockchain Analytics is big business! All the things the Treasury is considering to be "suspi…

If Monero ever came close to Bitcoin's popularity, it would be outlawed. Plain as that. You can't get freedom through technology.

Monero is outlawed in the EU. It's not illegal to possess, but no business is allowed to touch it.

Which proves that it does what it says. (Much like when the police suspect someone of being a drug dealer for using GrapheneOS)

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Post by krapp »

owlbite wrote: post #278
n0n0n4t0r wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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There will almost certainly be an election in 2028. The degree to which it will be rigged through gerrymandering, voter intimidation, voter suppression and/or blatant cheating is a different question.

The answer is "as much as legal, and maybe a little more" as with all American elections.
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