Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 05:46:01 PM

Quote from: legiteum on November 07, 2024, 10:11:41 PM

That would be an argument for no law enforcement whatsoever: you can't stop all crime, so why even try to stop any crime. And it's just silly.

Because it's tax payer money. You don't spend tax payer money to beat a dead horse. Criminals use privacy coins like Monero, that cannot be surveilled. The argument for surveillance to catch criminals no longer holds up, as they now have tools that allow them to evade government control entirely.

If you are saying that their laws are ineffective at catching criminals, then fine. I honestly don't know either way--we would have to dive into specific laws and specific criminal cases--but I definitely don't see anything wrong, in principle, with governments restricting certain technologies that are objectively deemed to be enabling crime and otherwise don't have any other valid practical use.

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So both candidates will continue the anti-money laundering rules for Bitcoin etc., but one of them carries the risk of corruptly destroying the entire Bitcoin market for his own gain--and yet you still liked Trump more? Very strange.

One of them has shown appreciation for Bitcoin. The other has actively tried to undermine it. It's that simple to my mind.

Um, seriously? Have you ever actually heard Trump speak? He is barely coherent, and has the vocabulary of an eight year old child. Trump's affinity to Bitcoin during the election was, "these companies are giving me a lot of money to say nice things about Bitcoin". If you think it extends any further than that you simply don't understand Trump.

Quote from: Synchronice on Today at 06:59:45 PM

In a perfect world, I would agree with legiteum but in this real world, I think that BlackHatCoiner is right, governments do everything for the sake of money, they don't do it to prevent crime and I'll prove it.

Okay, so what then? We all get some guns and fight off our neighbors who might have bigger guns? What good will your Bitcoin do you if somebody can just come along and steal anything you buy with it and kill you?

Governments have lots of problems, and they are sometimes infective and sometimes even terrible. But you are asking for pure anarchy here, which is just silly. The hard reality here is that we all have to work for better governments, and try to make our governments do better and be more fair. Throwing your hands up and saying, "no government!" is not a solution.