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 It's a meme from some guy who was convinced Jack Dorsey's blockclock was displaying the time in Moscow, and could not be convinced it was just showing sats/$ exchange rate 
 There's no such thing as a government, it's an abstraction. There are just people. Some are very smart, some are very dumb. All act in their own self-interest. 
 The bigger Mullvad gets the more enticing it becomes for governments to compromise it. What is the end goal here? 
 Like what fucking clown show reality are we living in where any of this shit is real? If your goa... 
 Stuff like this has always happened, in the past you just never found out about it. 
 Who knew that in order to create a $50B business you don't need to have any good product. You jus... 
 They are doing the same as the rest of us, riding the bitcoin monetization wave. They are just taking advantage of access to cheap capital. Your problem is with the entities that buy MSTR debt and equity. 
 Can they not just cross the border to Germany and pay 0% cap gains on bitcoin?