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 where there is a cut to be made, there will be bankers willing to act as conduits for on/offramps for bitcoin

they are playing a game of whack-a-mole and driving a brain drain... the more they increase the tyranny, the less the smart people want to help them do it, and they go somewhere else where things are more reasonable

like here in Madeira, for instance, if mainland EU tries to crack down on bitcoin, this will only increase the influx of more bitcoiners to the island who will continue to increase the amount of business being done here denominated in BTC, and provide yet another piece of ammunition for Albaquerque to promote this island as a bitcoin haven and add fire to the simmering discontent with Lisbon and Brussels that is very obvious when you talk to locals.

we are in nero fiddling epoch of the global anglo-german-american empire at this point... the point where the normies realise they are being ridden