that was the standard retort to “BTC isn’t anonymous” back in the day - just find someone on “Local Bitcoins” and pay a 20% surcharge to get coins from a dude on a street corner

too bad most of your debts are denominated in this shitcoin so you pay relatively less as it depreciates

(standard reminder that deflation is good for lenders and almost no-one else)

It’s important to get your brainworm shots before posting online.

“I like everything about cryptocurrency except all the things that are wrong with it”.

Not really sure why currency has to be “outside the control of any single person or entity”. Other than an intellectual curiosity. Currency is inherently social. Goldbugs keep harping on about the inherent value of gold, but its value is just as socially constructed as cowry shells or giant granite rings. China was a huge trading party in the time before the Opium wars and it preferred silver to gold.

This is Hercule Poirot levels of observation. Kudos.

Mooch is almost endearing in his earnest striving.