• solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    14 days ago

    ok… explain to me why trump and elmo are making such a hard push to switch from dollars to bitcoin?

    the federal reserve does whatever tf it wants. have you ever heard of anyone telling them what to do, and them doing it?

    unacceptable for trump

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      14 days ago

      No, it’s because they want to give themselves a bunch of free coin, make it popular, and dump it. They like it because it’s easy, they have a large pool of stupid people to draw from, and there’s no one to tell them “no”. Easier than a stock pump and dump, which as a lot of start up cost and regulations to dodge.

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      14 days ago

      People like this have even less sway in a currency like Monero than they do over the Federal Reserve, primarily because a community like Monero doesn’t trust people like that. It’s a complete direct democracy, where you can make your voice heard on absolutely any issue under discussion, bring up a new issue to discuss, etc. Change does not occur unless there is an extreme majority consensus. And if a change is not liked, it either will not happen or a fork will be created.

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      13 days ago

      I got the impression that they like crypto as an industry, not as a tool. I doubt they would guarantee safety for, as an example, KYC-less Monero exchangers.

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        13 days ago

        Oh no, they absolutely won’t do that because Monero actually works as digital money that they can’t control. So there will be no protections for it. In fact, I read a paper essay thing from somebody in the European Commission that was actually talking about attacking it by the government in order to purposely suppress it.