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Get your vote in now!! (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Ah, that all makes sense. I live in the US, so I'm looking at it from that lens.

don’t think the government should have power over dissenters assets

Agreed, but this is a thorny problem. Clearly the government has a legitimate cause to freeze some assets in some cases (obvious example: US govt freezing Osama bin Laden's accounts). This becomes an abuse-of-power question, then. Unfortunately, we as humanity don't have a good answer to it.

third world Russia

Technically, Russia would be second world :)

I do think cryptocurrencies fall short of the promise/hype with the exchange problem -- either there's a big bank-like clearinghouse that the government can target with freeze orders, or you're in "You have to know a guy who knows a guy" territory when it comes time to actually use the cryptocurrency. I can't pay my mortgage by transferring Bitcoin or Ethereum to my bank.