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Am I the only one annoyed beyond belief by cryptocoins of all kinds?

* Bitcoin wastes an enormous amount of electricity, to the point mining ops have been buying up derelict power plants and powering them up again, and on top of that Iran and North Korea use Bitcoin to finance their dictatorships

* Shitcoins have led to GPUs being unaffordably expensive for years now

* Not to mention loads of people getting scammed with pump & dump schemes, shitcoins, the plague that is NFT or hackers using Bitcoin to transfer cryptolocker ransom money

* And now, this new shitcoin makes people raid cheap SSDs.

Just how much are we willing to endure? At some point this shit has to stop.



Bitcoin is more or less the first international currency that cannot be blocked by governments or financial institutions.

You may not find this property valuable, but for someone who's banned from multiple banks, bitcoin is incredible.


Generally people who are banned from multiple banks tend to be hardened criminals and terrorists or enemy nations such as Iran or North Korea.

For legit people with stuff like shot credit scores, there's always credit unions or debit-only accounts.


I don't fall under any of those categories. I'm a registered and compliant digital currency business and regulated under our national law. Banks don't want to work with me, not just for my business, but also personally.




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