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but isnt this notion one of the prime motivating factors behind the creation of crypto - the idea that we can build a financial system which is completely independent of the one that exists currently?

crypto could in fact be completely strangled by this strategy

I realise that this thread is probably a bad place to discuss covid, but it does seem pretty crazy that over 6 million ppl might have died globally bc of a lab leak due to an ultimately unnecessary research programme into a virus that originally killed three ppl.

so the direct rails are to ethereum? ethereum is therefore a kind of obfuscatory asset into which I can "launder" my illegal gains. but this just moves the regulatory focus to ethereum directly. or wherever. the point is that eventually you need to move your money out of crypto and into the...

surely you can easily shut down all the rails tho?

standard for weird twitter, that's not the interesting bit

and yet, strange and alien vistas are opening up before us:

in a sense, this is a measure of crypto's success - it's starting to matter, and therefore the state needs to exert some measure of control

started reading an interesting book about covid, "viral" by alina chan and matt ridley. their conclusion (spoiler alert) is that it probably originated from a lab leak from a lab engaged in gain of function research.

needed someone else to play just dance with me

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amusing thread

not even gonna drop a link?

yes but it's not simply a question of whether retaliation against Russia is justified but rather whether that retaliation is likely to result in nuclear war. after all, you could imagine a similar convo post invasion of iraq. why shouldn't we bomb american positions, isnt it all equivalent...

it's not actually true, for starters. they defaulted twice in the 90s, I think. I doubt it's massively significant either, it's already cut off from funding markets but Russia can obvs access foreign currency anyway since everyone is still buying its exported oil and gas