Bloomberg must have some interest against Bitcoin. There has been constant negative coverage from Bloomberg for months if not years. I haven’t seen anything like this from any other publication.
> Minds get eroded by technology by heavily relying on it
This has been said for thousands of years. Socrates/Plato was complaining about how writing weakens the human memory.
We need to accept that human minds are limited and technology is meant to extend them. Science has advanced considerably due to computers despite the appearances.
The way out of the current “impasse” is through even more technology. We might not be able to solve all the mysteries of the universe without intelligence augmentation or superintelligent AI.
It is very easy to make unenforceable laws. Actually blocking VPNs would require something akin to the great firewall of China, which I don't see the EU building in the near future.
Criminalizing something means nothing if the laws can't be enforced. Torrenting copyrighted works is a criminal act, and yet torrenting has never been easier after years of efforts to shut it down from all sides.
Isn’t this just the byproduct of the karma/voting system? Content voted by the majority of users is going to have higher visibility, it’s pretty difficult to get around that without fundamentally changing the way the website works.
> “Fundamentally, the company is based on a proposition that is just false. It is something that just can’t happen,” says Sten Linnarsson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
That sounds a lot like the "heavier than air flight is impossible" quote from 1895.
A sizeable and growing portion of the population refuses to have any dealing with this shady corporation. Facebook is not a universal authentication platform and never will be.
> Bitcoin and cryptos ought to be banned for good.
Serious question: how would you go about “banning” cryotocurrencies? The most you can do is close exchanges which would make crypto harder to acquire and liquidate.