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> Freezing crypto is so disgusting to me I don’t know…

The feature literally appears to have just saved over two billion USD from being stolen! I mean, fine, "disgusting" is subjective. But the need for the feature is real and quantifiable (and very large) and it did what it advertised.

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it cuts both ways - it's fine when 2B of heist money gets frozen, but much less "fine" when your paycheck gets frozen because you've attended a political rally the ruling party/class does not like.

I'm just saying that the scale of those cuts matters in the analysis. How many billion dollars of paychecks have been frozen?

Scale doesn't matter. Control matters. Who controls this controls me and that's not OK at any scale.

> Who controls this controls me and that's not OK

I'm lost, are you arguing against Binance or against freezable crypto? Both "control" you! There are like three billion dollars out there in presumably-north-Korean-hands that their owners thought they "controlled". They didn't.

So given the choice, yeah, I'd like some safety please.


When I want protection I put my money in my bank, when I want ownership I do crypto.

I’m aware that not every crypto would do that. I’m quite sure the BTC won’t get frozen.

Just saying. A non government controlled currency would help to a fairer less corrupt place, but that’s not what crypto is used for.

Imagine a world where governments can’t just print money to save reckless companies.

We would probs have less oligarchy




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