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  • Fair enough, you're less likely to vote for shit policies if you know that you're going to be living with them. And even if you do vote for shit policies and end up living with them, it was entirely your damn fault. And you just brought it on yourself.

  • Lord, I hope so. That would make it the first state in the deep south to do so.If it does happen with it being the 26th state, that means that over half of the United States says it should be legal and we might start to really see things happen at the federal level with that.

  • Even had the front end website not been running, that money would have still been laundered. I heard an explanation of it earlier that was saying something to the effect of, imagine a door at the edge of a field. There is no walls, there is no nothing else, just a door at the edge of a field. Anybody can come into that field and use it whenever they wish. Putting a lock on the door will not keep people out of the field. They can just walk in wherever the door isn't.

  • And see, there's where the problem comes in. He never actually took the currency from the smart contract itself. In fact, it is still online and being used as of this day. And he is getting none of the currency just like he got none of the currency before. What they are going after him for is creating a front-end user interface to access the contract. I believe they did take a fee from that user interface since it made it simpler than interacting with the contract directly. The problem is that they are saying that by taking fees from that user interface, he is money laundering, but not everybody who used that user interface was using it for money laundering. A famous example is the creator of Ethereum used it to donate to Ukraine.

  • But in essence, they are punishing this guy for writing code. And at least in the United States, code is considered speech. And this is a very bad precedent. I know that this is a Dutch court, but still that is not a good thing.

  • Exactly, companies and services have scammed users, but the core protocol is as good or better today than it was in 2010 and it has not been hacked. Trust me, many people would be extatic to see it happen. The fundamentals are rock solid.

  • Yeah, we are going to have to agree to disagree there. What you call real money backed by the government and justice systems has always failed eventually. Because people manipulate it for personal gain. I wish you good luck manipulating Bitcoin since it hasn't happened in the 14 years it's existed. Lots have tried, all have failed.

  • The same things that make it like that make it good money. If i hand you a $100 bill i cant get it back without either asking you or force. With today's payment methods i can just call the bank crying that i never did that transaction and fuck you over. Deceptive auto renewing memberships like gyms and other things dont work either because crypto like cash is a push payment instead of a pull payment. I cant just take your money whenever i damn well feel like it you have to actively give it to me.

    Edit: it also truely makes it "your money". A government goon can call up your bank any time and have your account frozen or drained because money in the bank is a conditional IOU subject to revocation at any time for any reason with no explaination to you required.