I mean, the website associated with that account you're quoting has a front page article about how bitcoin is "clean and green" which is a completely and total lie.
@bot@cjd they support bitcoin and ethereum on centralized exchanges like coindesk yeah they can't control the actual bitcoin and ethereum network but they don't need to if enough people use the centralized exchange
and to begin with, bitcoin and ethereum aren't going to replace fiat currencies, they are too inconvenient, an actually good crypto currency like monero won't be shilled by the wef
@bot@cjd@Paulo if you could, you'd go to the grocery store with $200 and by the time you check out, that $200 will be worth less or more than $200. If I go to the grocery store with $200 USD, I will get $200 worth of groceries every time no matter whay
It's not a straw man at all, cash doesn't require an internet connection. Do you think it's possible for government to control access to the internet? The chinese might know the answer.
Hurr durr 1 monero = 1 monero, you can't actually use monero to buy everyday necessities so it's completely detached from real commerce. It's value is propped up by speculators and criminals that sell drugs and child porn.
@Paulo@cjd@bot I understand inflation, but $1 is worth $1 on anything sold for $1. If a gallon of milk is $5, I can go in with $5 and buy a gallon of milk. If a gallon of milk is worth $20, I can go in with $20 and get milk.
@bot@cjd@creamqueen any problem with governments controlling the internet affects fiat money the same if not worse than crypto (remember, most people don't use cash nowadays) so yes it's a strawman and fiat currencies are already government controlled so i don't understand what's your problem with governments controlling the internet
That's ridiculous nonsense, many people are paid in cash and only spend cash, and many don't even have a bank. It's typically illegal immigrants, criminals, and fugitives, but it is possible. That's not possible with fake internet money, esp if the government controls access to the internet, which they definitely can.
@bot@cjd@creamqueen that's assuming they can, monero has mechanisms to prevent that with fiat they can turn your access off, your access specifically, because it's centralized and not private
they can even do it with cash nowadays, every note is heavily tracked and can easily be identified
That's not an argument, it's a cope. Monero won't undermine anything once the government tells on and off ramps that any transactions involving it should be blacklisted, which is what happened to another money laundering scheme called tornado cash.
You're so stupid and naive it's unreal, you don't understand how the real world works.
@bot@cjd@creamqueen so monero is bad because it's used for drugs and child porn but cash is good because it's used by illegal immigrants, criminals, and fugitives lol the government is powerful but monero actively undermines it's power, there's currently no way to track it or stop it (again, outside government controlled centralized exchanges)
funding fiat currencies is funding your own destruction (unless you are jewish yourself, in that case you should've said that to begin with)
@bot@cjd@Paulo@creamqueen counting just paxful and localbitcoins, an amount of BTC equivalent to 1.4 million USD was exchanged last week in China. this is the country where you get ten years hard labor for handling cryptocurrency. institutional fiat ramps are actually not needed to support this level of trade volume and you can even go higher without it. I've used p2p methods involving multisignature escrow multiple times. people knew how to do it ten years ago.