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> If that was your idea, wouldn't we be better served by lobbying our politicians to move the needle on the drug war (seems to be happening) instead of creating volatile whale controlled crypto "currencies" which use huge amounts of electricity as our planet faces a climate change crises and which also enables all of the other really terrible illegal things listed?

What would really be better is to push politicians to stop using the banking system as a mass surveillance apparatus and allow there to be above-board systems for the anonymous digital transfer of modest amounts of cash. Then you destroy the demand for cryptocurrency by out-competing it, and eliminate the energy waste problem.



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