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76325872 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Neutrality is ideal, but her point is that they are citing 'regulatory concerns, which means that govs and politics still dictate the money flow, so decetralization is a pipe dream.
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imnuso | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 This is nonsense talk along the lines of "If my leftist view is contradicted, it must be government intervention.

Collecting money to effect change is never neutral. 

Moreover, the money flows are free, but people are not free from the real-world consequences of their real-world actions with that money. Considering this is not „AML regime intervention“ (although it could be of course). 

I know many bitcoiners like to ignore this, but there is a good reason why Satoshi chose not to make bitcoin fully encrypted and private. Not just technical but societal ones. 

It's very complex, but bitcoiners on the right and left (aka masked collectivists) don't like complexity. They just like to use bitcoin as a vehicle for their political nonsense. 

I don’t trust her on this one.