Crypto haters like to lol at each individual use case under various pretenses, but that misses the big picture of the use cases piling up and the inevitability of their number and effectiveness to keep increasing.
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donât you like these day gains?
donât you like rainbow fangs?
Thought you were staying out of this this thread, you fucking asshole.
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Line go up?
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Not trying to defend Binance, but have banks frozen all Russian accounts? Like if a random Russian citizen had a Citibank account, is that frozen? I tried to google and couldnât get an answer (although I only spend about 5 minutes searching).
Is it murderous dictators, though, or is it ordinary Russians, most of whom oppose the war? Here is the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine:
https://twitter.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/1497922588491792386
The idea here is not that theyâre going to sanction Putin and his cronies and that the hardship experienced by ordinary Russians will be collateral damage. The idea is explicitly to financially destroy ordinary Russians as a means of destabilizing the regime.
That is economic terrorism. That doesnât necessarily mean itâs beyond the pale. This is high-stakes manoeuvring. But I gotta say I am sympathetic to the argument that Russian people, who did not choose their government, have a right to defend themselves against financial ruin.
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I wouldnât call it terrorism, but then, I donât think that all terrorism is inherently bad.
https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1498362176838455299
https://twitter.com/zoomba/status/1498381415741800460
Fedorov in that tweet is spelling out that the idea is to âsabotageâ the ability of Russian civilians to protect themselves from financial ruin. I donât know how else you describe trying to inflict pain on civilians for the purposes of achieving political goals.
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weird how nearly everyone else does it in a different way
Lol of course you donât.
Itâs not terrorism if it is a lawful action and if it is done by or at the behest of a state. Terrorism is an unlawful act by non-state actors.
Some people just deserve to die.
Yeah but the game overall is still fun to play. Axie is just a job with silly graphics.
Iâd expect anyone who went through UIGEA and Black Friday to not be gung-ho about blanket freezes of civilian assets.
Video gaming was so much more pure when I was pumping quarters into the machine over and over and over again hoping my skills improved just enough to make each subsequent 25 cent game last a little bit longer.
Hell, the business model of the first video games was quite literally getting me to spend my lunch money on them instead of food.
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I was merely pointing out that the GAINS made by BTC today coincide with invasion and subsequent refusal by exchanges to freeze the accounts of Russian users. War seems to be good for crypto.
This is true, but it sucks! Fifa is a worse product now than before FUT became popular.
I think I even read they make more from FUT than the actual game, and if they donât it must he close.