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 ETF PARTNERS SUCH AS JP MORGAN ARE EXPOSED TO BITCOIN PRICE RISK WHILE THEY SOURCE THE BITCOIN TH... 
 Once their peg on btc pops, there will be a huge squeeze. Sooner than later people will realize btc sellers or zero-crypto people must be completely insane, since there is mathematically no reason for its price to drop. 
 I appreciate the development. But the vote must be pen and paper only. Each and every voter, including those non tech people, must physically SEE their vote before it goes into the box. And the box must be in sight of the public from the moment the first vote is put into it until the whole LOCAL, public count process. Any technology must respect these premises.

If I need a tech guy to explain me how my vote goes on chain, there is a fundamental vulnerability. 
 During COVID I was debating someone about lockdowns, masks, vaccine passports etc… 

They said ... 
 If we can do ANYTHING to protect lives, I'd start by overthrowing the government of China, then arresting key people from the US deep state, because they created the problem in the first place, just to disrupt Trump's 1st term in such a way there could not be a 2nd one, even stealing the elections. 
 Agreed. I don't think "elected" means good. By deep state I just mean "not visible". 
 Who, for example?

Original post refers to mask+lockdown people. So I replied at the level of the average state-believer, which is IQ 80- . 
 I thought exactly like that for 50 years. Now I'm still a disbeliever in state, but also a single issue voter: I will always vote against the people of mandates. 

I don't think it is a big deal, I still care about my own stuff and try to live without the state, do things for my community and educate others, but now I vote. It is at worst irrelevant.