• shortwavesurfer
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    5 months ago

    Actually, that is a pretty good endorsement because if it can be used to commit crime, then that means that it remains private, which is why the government wants it off of exchanges so people can’t easily get it. If they wanted to prevent crime, they would outlaw the US dollar first.

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      Facilitating ransomware is good actually, is quite the take. But yeah this is a ‘we dislike all cryptocurrencies’ zone.

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        Lol. I don’t particularly like ransomware, but I am willing to deal with it to have privacy. Because the privacy to run ransomware gives regular people the privacy to do what they want to do that’s perfectly legal. Take an extreme example. Forks should be banned because you can stab people with them. Maybe five people die per year of being stabbed by forks, but hundreds of millions of people eat with them and never stab anybody, so they should all be banned.

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          Oh please do tell us more about all the legal activity you’re getting up to! What kinds of things are you buying?

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            I buy groceries, pay my phone bill, insurance, domain, email provider, etc.

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          I’m already missing r/bitcoins usertags. You certainly deserve one.

          Bonus of no longer being on reddit, when weird people get banned they no longer can DM me personally because they confused me for being a reasonable person open to hearing more.

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          Except with crapto the proportion is the other way round, thousands of people use them to commit crimes but only tens of people use them legitimately.

          So banning forks is a dumb thing, banning crapto is a boon to humanity.

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            Chain analysis companies even admit that about 1% of crypto use is for criminal activity. The other 99% is lawful use

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              Shit, here I thought that at least buying illegal drugs was a somewhat defensible reason to deal in crypto and now you’re telling me 99% of it is not even for that?

              You’re not making monero look cooler, you’re just making digital privacy look worse.

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                the 1% claim is a distorted version of a report from Chainalysis that said 1.5% of bitcoin use was definitely identified as crime

                even then, they calculated this by carefully ignoring most of the crime

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                  I dunno, sounds reasonable to me. Just like when recent studies by independent groups of experts on fintech enthusiasts found that investing in cryptocurrency was correlated with up to 70% increased body odor, a statistically significant drop in attractiveness and between one and three standard deviations below baseline level of self awareness.

                  The independent group consisted of me. The papers are available if you pay me 350€ for a yearly subscription to my journal.

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              brings up monero

              about 1% of crypto use is for criminal activity. The other 99% is lawful use

              time for you to fuck off now

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                and of course their entire post history is just generic crypto misinformation with a weird monero obsession

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                  2 out of 11 posts seems like a pretty bad ratio for “entire”

                  Edit: thats 18.2% or <1/5

                  Edit 2: my previous account (moved instances) is 43/199 posts or 21.61% so just over 1/5.

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          i, knowing the effects of ransomware on various institutions, am willing to deal with people who are willing to deal with it (on other people’s systems) by kicking said people in the face. i hope you don’t mind, nothing personal, really, just a policy matter.