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What I'm waiting for is to hear Saylor or Larry Fink address this issue.
I agree, but why? Is it just a coincidence that this happens months after BlackRock, run by Larry Fink, who is incredibly well connected to the government, gets their spot ETF? It seems like a blatant attempt to make sure bitcoin is controlled and run by Wall Street.
I'm still gathering them. At first glance it almost looks like it's intentionally imprecise in order to foster maximum fear.
I think this morning's GDP and inflation numbers caused a bit of a tremor in the US. I was listening to Bloomberg Radio. They are 100 percent behind keeping up the illusion that the economy is great to ensure Biden's reelection, but they were grasping at straws this morning. Maybe it was my imagination, but they seemed to be aware for the first time that people weren't buying their bullshit.
Yes, that would improve decentralization and might be healthy for the network. Still, I hope we all don't start taking sides and deeming certain players or use cases bad. For example, LN advocates expressing happiness that Samourai gets attacked because they don't like conjoins. Or small nodes attacking rich LSPs. We're all under attack unjustly. If they don't knock on your door today, it might be next week.
My God. These guys weren't even arraigned yet. Way to stand up for your principles.
This might be worse than I thought.
So wait. This is good news? I feel better now.
Seriously, I do agree with a lot of what you wrote. With #1, though, I think there is a high likelihood that we will see guilty pleas very soon. That's how it works in the federal system. Either one defendant will roll on the other, or some Russian oligarch will take a hit. Either way, plea bargains almost always involve guilty pleas to all charges.
This hung me up for a long time. Coincidentally, I took a CLE course 2 days ago. It is well settled law in the US that for money transfer services, transferring anything of value qualifies, and specifically "cryptocurrency".