Quote from: mikeywith on Today at 04:45:50 PM

Russia has been bombing Syria for years, killing civilians everyday, I do not recall anyone called for Russia ban, I am most certainly against this invasion and all sort of wars, unlike many I witnessed war and lost many dear souls, but It is either we as crypto miners stand against all wars or shut our eyes on all of them, cherry picking what type of victims you want to be sad about is far from logical.

Do you want to know why?
The sad but still real truth, because the war was not at our doorsteps, that's it.

You see all those countries putting Russia on sanctions, they didn't care about Syria, they don't care about Yemen and one can be sure they don't care what China does with its minorities. But now, war is here, right on our borders, a war that was feared for 70 years and a war that looks like a xerox copy of the 1938-1939 events, and nobody wants this to happen again, not when both sides have nukes.
Just how I would understand a guy from Brazil or Botswana not giving a rat's ass about Europe right now is the same thing the opposite way.

Everyone will put its own interest and its own family and nation first, if China and India and Vietnam will become superpowers and the world will spin around them nobody will care about Europe and suddenly one man killed at the border in Bangladesh will be more important than 13 soldiers on a rocky island.

Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 02:12:17 PM

lets say Putin had a covid induced stroke that affects his rationality.
does the rest of the world 🌍 simply allow him to run amuck?

Not the first time
It was Austria, Sudetenland, Bohemia, Moravia, Lithuania, Danzig, Poland, and then boom, Paris. Wink

Anyhow, it's really a messy discussion here.
Where do we draw a line between bitcoin and activities that rely on it as a source of income from it or activities that support the chain?

For a CEX is simple, they are a business, they have KYC they every regulation.

What should a miner do when it knows a transaction is coming from a darknet wallet, a hack, some foreign agency, or a mixer?
Should we try to police the chain based on our feelings? Let tx flow to Ukraine and what do we do with the ones going to NK? I think total neutrality on this would be better, after all, nobody gains from the direct transactions, we're just moving the money around, the problem lies in how he got it and how he will spend and that's not our business.

But on mining, what if Rusia decided to actually rely on BTC (I don't believe it one bit) and simply subsidies all mining activity, leaving miners with half of a cent per kWh traffic, should we consider this as an attack, a tentative takeover or, see it as a natural event?

Things that look simple are always way more complicated than we like.

To change the gloomy atmosphere a bit:
Diff down -3, price up 15%. Cheesy