Here We Go,incoming FUD: How Hamas is using cryptocurrency to raise fundswww.cnn.com/2023/10/12/us/hamas-funding-crypto-invs/index.html
120 sats \ 2 comments \ @siggy47 13 Oct 2023 bitcoin
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53 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 13 Oct 2023
Not to nitpick (if that's the word) but: I would assume that Hamas is raising funds in btc. So it's not really FUD in the normal sense -- it's telling an uncomfortable truth: the first adopters of btc will be groups disenfranchised from the normal mechanisms.
The only reasonable response (imo) is to contextualize this in the larger scheme of things. Kind of like the ACLU fighting for the rights of shitbags. Or more famously, from H.L. Mencken:
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 13 Oct 2023
I like using Mencken as a defense. He has so many great quotes. I reread the Chrestomathy every few years and sometimes laugh out loud. In other contexts the ACLU Skokie thing seems to have lost the impact it had as free speech is no longer seen as a "civil libertarian issue."
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