So in your opinion you don’t think its possible to hate both parties that have continued to make things worse every four years?

I mean yes republicans suck ass but so does the party that never moved a muscle to change healthcare for all or legalize weed or any of the other shit they promised they’d do. Instead you get cheap half passed attempts like Obama care (really loved the feature where you had to pay a penalty fee that could be upwards of a couple thousand dollars if you were unable to still pay for that shit).

Yeah I can’t imagine hating both parties that have been full of shit since the beginning of it all.

Because they were never going to do that shit in the first place. All propaganda and pandering points.

Anything drug related.

If you grow a few mushrooms they can charge you with manufacture and give you like 10 to 20 years.

But all this is assuming they want to convert it into another currency at all, I was thinking why not just use it in that form for international trade although some of the other comments have explained the dollar amount equivalent wouldn’t be able to exist right now due to mining limits.

But why not use a combination then of crypto, precious metals, and just straight up raw currency. I mean if chinas bank doesn’t want to accept it they could just ship a container with money in it directly to them right?

I mean criminal enterprises move BILLIONS all the time without banks so I don’t see how its so hard for two of the larger nations in the world.

Edit: I’m guessing the conversion into the Yuan would betheissue with sending them straight up cash huh?

See this was what I was really wondering. Some cryptp like Dogecoin and Monero have unlimited amounts that can be mined and while certainly not practical in my mind I was 100% thinking why not just mine a fuck ton of Doge or something and have it agreed upon that that is the international trade money.

I do see how converting it into a fiat currency would be problematic though but in that case wouldn’t gold or silver also he able to be utilized?

The points do make sense. But I mean at that point why not just use the crypto solely for international trade with other parties going the same thing?

Especially using the one that can’t be traced or tied back to any entity (Monero)

At that point it seems it would be trivial to convert into cash but also why would you have to if you could just use it between countries like that.

I mean I know people hatecrypto here but even they have to admit it seems like a better idea than getting no money through at all.

Lol well this depends on the crypto used and its hard to think that bank fees of any kind would be better than to just pay the fee to speed the transaction up.

Also, presumably they would use dummy wallets and not send amounts from their cold wallet with the full amount on it.

Idk, just seems like they deserve the trouble at this point if they can’t utilize the ways around it.

Not flexing. Its a way to make decentralized payments.

Why would they not utilize it more? I saw that Russia said they would and then they just keep talking about banks not accepting the cash.

Why would they not just use cryptpcurrency at this point?

Like, there is a solution right there. I don’t support either of their governments btw but I mean come on, the answer is right there

I saw that on an article about the MiG switch before it came out and it was saying at the time that you could still fake certs and Nintendo didn’t have a monitoring system in place for it.

I’m sure they’ve changed it now though especially from that other users comment you replied to but was halfway hoping someone might tell me it was still possible.

Are you saying that increasing prices of a good or service to the point where people don’t want to pay for it anymore doesn’t contribute to a rise in black market sales and distribution of the good or service?

I think you’re mistaken.

Huh I wonder if they’ll ever figure out the correlation there…

Some serious “are we the baddies?” vibes for sure.

You’d think they would it was amazing how that system specifically reached such a large audience. A lot of older people even liked it.

I will forever wonder why they just abandoned the whole idea after it had so much success.

Dude this opened up so many memories I loved this movie as a kid!!

You could send them to northst Louis. It’s heavily irradiated from all the uranium refinement that Mallinkrodt did for the government in the 40s. They just poured it out in a big hole that they then turned into a garbage heap and set on fire.

Its conveniently where all the poor people live.

I definitely understand that but it is quite an important nuance of the topic to discuss especially considering the USA is threatening to ban Tik Tok for this reason and yet, allows all of its American companies to do the same.

I get whataboutism and all that but when it is directly being affected by the rest of the conversation I feel like its important that the information does get talked about.

But there’s a federal law that says marijuana is illegal and states are deciding on its own legality anyway.

Lol gotta love all those down votes you get for telling the truth.

You’re telling me a president can’t sign an executive order to deschedule marijuana? I think you’re mistaken.