• jungle@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    President Trump announced his intention to ensure that all future bitcoin production would take place within the United States, should he be re-elected.

    facepalm

    • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      What? Our ancient grid says lol. But also. We don’t own bitcoin. It’s not some random American product that the US owns the rights to. What even.

      • Weslee@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        That’s pretty easy tbh, most of the core bitcoin devs all work for a single company that can absolutely be bought out, and even have gone on record on how much they dislike bitcoin.

        It was the main reason I got out, I bought into it because I was excited by the tech behind it, but no single company should have that much control over the direction it goes in.

        Now you could argue that if they did so the chain would just split and the rest of the world would just stay off the USA owned chain, but imo they have already done so much against the interest of bitcoin and everyone has just gone along with it so far (minus the bch split) so what do I know.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          The whole point of cryptocurrency is that it’s decentralized. Trying to geographically limit it goes counter to the entire point. If the core devs tried to restrict it to a location like the US, it would be split pretty much immediately.

          Not happening.

        • gressen@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          To take over Bitcoin it would take not only devs but also miners and major exchanges to cooperate. No single government on this planet has this power.

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            3 months ago

            as another comment indicated, bitcoin (and other hard crypto chains) are resistant, not immune. please don’t make that part of your armour.