USD-e, I've always appreciated your common sense when dealing with all kinds of stuff as the person leading the USDE coin project, but this idea of yours really caught me off guard. I think this would be a shot in the foot as far as the coin's marketing is concerned. The Sochi games are under heavy fire from all sides, because of Russia's "president" Vladimir Putin's homophobic stand, because of that country's anti-gay and anti-freedom of speech laws, and now because of a controversial cull on stray dogs around the areas where the games will take place (and that means murder in my dictionary). If USDE is going to be used to depict the Sochi Olympics positively in any way, please let me know, because I have absolutely no intention of having any kind of relation with anything or anyone who supports that abomination of an event.

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