• musicalphysics@discuss.online
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    12 hours ago

    Lemmy loves open source except if it is bitcoin or Ethereum. I don’t get why so many are so happy for their government to be able to control their wealth through currency manipulation. Plus governments also use money to suppress dissent or ideas the gov’t doesn’t like, aka things like Wikileaks.

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      3 hours ago

      Cryptocurrency is also prone to manipulation and it doesn’t have to be through the protocol. Did you think the increase in value of bitcoin to over $100k per coin was organic?