Damus
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Peter Todd
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“But without taxes or a central bank how will we pay for genocide?”

Ideologue bitcoiners are so hopelessly dumb about this... Governments collected taxes just fine when everything was run on cash. Hiding income and especially property from the taxman is not easy.

The governments of the world that are actually funding genocide – Russia, Iran, Qatar, etc. – are doing it even though their currencies are garbage and hardly anyone trusts them enough to loan them money.

Bitcoin doesn't fix this.

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₿water · 39w
Wtf are U doing here if this is what you believe? Be honest
Constant · 12w
Il take it a step further; regardless of taxes, war can be a profitable venture on its on, assuming you win. I dislike the simplistic 'btc defunds war' narrative, especially because it just does not do the matter justice. Its a thorny issue, because the nature of armies can change, the type of w...