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qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
Ethereum is easy to change (hard forks often) and so cannot be expected to preserve any key characteristics like emission curve or even the permissionless nature.

In fact, Ethereum's monetary policy did change in the past.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
Incorrect, Ethereum is still using PoW.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
I don't give a shit about Wired categorization. MobileCoin is a company. It has a fucking CEO. Cryptocurrency is by definition decentralized.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
MobileCoin is not a cryptocurrency.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
How about helping competition to beat FAANG network effects by deregulating everything?

Increasingly, "more regulation" seems to be the go-to solution for any and all societal problems.

There seem to be no free market capitalists left on HN anymore :(
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
Good.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
You seem to have a very US centric view. There are other 7.5 billion people in the World.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
"Temporarily" like a f**cking YEAR. Some business owners committed suicide over this, so I guess its safe to say permanent for them at least.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
"Temporary"? It's been A YEAR and tens of thousands of businesses and families going bankrupt. And there is no end in sight to this.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
Poland.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
Please help me understand.

Say Monica runs a clothing shop and sells clothes (including face masks and sun glasses) to people she suspects are drug dealers.

And we are not talking a single pair of sun glasses - she is running the clothing shop 8 hours a day, every day, for many years.

Well, she facilitated criminal activity and must go to jail, right?
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
> That will deter 99% of the potential users from ever trying it out.

Nah, we had this kind of ban on western fiat currencies in communist Poland. And guess what, illegal p2p trading of USD worked just fine.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
This will get you nowhere. Already, Monero successfully employs general CPU-s for its PoW. Bitcoin could switch to another PoW algorithm if critically necessary. Decentralized cryptocurrencies are beautiful hydras.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
> Just a small group of hyper enthusiasts

You are mistaken, Sir. We are legion.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
In my country running a sports gym, a restaurant or a hotel is illegal.

So yeah, I won't be surprised if Bitcoin will suddenly become illegal.

Literally everything is becoming illegal as we speak.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
Ban people from saying this!! :D
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
You are right in the short term. Most governments will fiercely fight Bitcoin and all true cryptocurrencies.

In the long term though, it is inevitable, like all technological progress in the World.

You can only contain it for so long.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
I say ban everything, the sooner the better.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
You are absolutely right but it gets even worse. The KYC bullshit is on the brink to spill over to non financial services, like messaging apps, hosting, email, and what not.
qertoip
·5 lat temu·discuss
Agree, we did similar with Elixir/Phoenix in my past company.

Obviously, the services will still be necessary where Elixir simply isn't the right tool for the job like machine learning or cryptocurrency.