• enterpries@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s not just bitcoin, but cryptocurrency in general enables decentralized transactions and some of them even maintain anonymity for users.

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      Why not go further and imagine a world without money, crypto or fiat?

      Bitcoin doesn’t give power to you or me, it just transfers the power from one set of bastards to another, because it’s STILL MONEY and money is and will always be a tool for exploitation.

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      until you need actual cash, in which case you give your identity to any reputable exchange.

      also who actually benefits from “decentralized” transactions? specifically who and how.

      also, that anonymity is what cash is for.

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        that anonymity is what cash is for.

        Crytpo is a currency of crime and corruption. The biggest problem Pablo Escobar had was moving around thousands of pounds of money, a lot of which he had to bury and was eaten by rats. Cash is hard to launder. Ryan Wedding grew his empire very fast using crypto across borders.

        The only advantage of crypto is that it doesn’t physically exist, and no one has to report sending or receiving large quantities of it, unlike cash.

        $1M in 20s is 40-50kg of weight. Hard to smuggle up your ass.

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        until you need actual cash

        Crypto can replace cash if more people use it.

        also who actually benefits from “decentralized” transactions? specifically who and how.

        Everyone that doesn’t benefit from the surveillance state.

        also, that anonymity is what cash is for.

        How are you going to exchange cash across vast distances quickly and anonymously?