I think most Shitcoiners are against Libra because as always they don’t want competition. As a Bitcoiner I welcome it. Ancap welcomes everyone, as long as I’m not forced to use it.
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Replying to @nvk
I think there is a libertarian case against crony-capitalist semi/governmental corporations wielding incredible power and lobbying for preferential anti-competitive treatment
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Replying to @thebitcoinrabbi
Indeed. But not very crony in this case, they are being forced to setup in a different country because they were not able to capture the government (I’m sure they tried)
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Replying to @nvk @thebitcoinrabbi
Facebook has a long way to go before they learn how to do Wall Street politics.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @thebitcoinrabbi
I thought that, but then I’d imagine they’d hire the same ppl or better and learned they still can’t get it. At least not in the tech timeframe. So they said fuck it, announced it and setup the thing in Switzerland just to piss the GOV off. They may regret it.
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Big time Wall Street politics isn’t so much lobbyists/politicians beening bought off but macroeconomy game of forcing the state to bail out the industry repeatedly, socializing losses/privatizing gains, the Greenspan Put “because if you don’t we take the whole system down w/ us”
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It's all of the above, and more, including the amazingly rapid and effective lobbying efforts against easily targeted wannabe competitors like Libra, as we've just seen.
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