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stacksatsio | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Why are these people even in Bitcoin? 

The status quo of nation states will be ended if Bitcoin is successful and yet they desperately cling to the system and just want Bitcoin inside it. 

The system gave us fiat and endless wars and these clowns want to perpetuate it but think dropping hard money in will fix everything else? It makes no sense
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TheBitcoinManual | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I don't get it either, why are you trying to tell the government what to do as if they didn't exist from ill gotten gains? 

Like tell me you don't get bitcoin without telling me!

A hard money standard will have plenty of casualties, I feel like people like this don't want the system to change, they just want to get close to the money printer
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stacksatsio | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 There’s lots of these people in Bitcoin. They seem to want Bitcoin to reset Liberal Democracy to some time that never actually existed but they believe possible.

They need to study more.
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kevin_strom | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 The emperors of Rome and their courtiers thought they could import Gothic and German mercenaries to defend themselves against other Goths and Germans, while they continued whoring and feasting and partying. It worked... for a while.
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TheBitcoinManual | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I think we're still pretty far off a large enough portion of the population turning up their nose at a fiat payment, this system has too many supporters for it to quit just yet