‘Sure, even authoritarian states can use Bitcoin. But they can’t print it, inflate it, or freeze it. That makes it dangerous - not just to their enemies, but to their own control.’
This is a bug not a feature if the inability to centralise spending power means the population can’t fund a military and gets invaded.
Benewing / Ben Ewing
npub1wg…sd2ek
2025-07-17 08:17:18 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…knsx
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