Yes they do, for the same reason that self driving cars get a pass when doing an illegal u-turn. The laws as written currently do not cover a situation outside of direct human control and intent.
It shouldn't be the case, but to fix this we need new laws first, and laws don't get to be criminally applied retrospectively in Australia, so yeah they got a free pass this time.
How come no one ever talks about using it as a voting system instead of just "money". Every candidate gets a wallet. every citizen cast a vote by sending a fraction of a token to the candidate. Its anonymous but can also be openly audited by literally anyone.
Because it's not a problem that needs solving? Election fraud is so insignificant it's never impacted an election in the USA. Why throw out a system that works for something that has some very serious flaws:
Oh also, It's unhackable......
It's anything but. Anyone with majority control on the chain can modify the ledger. Unless you're going to get the weight and might of the entire world to secure your ledger it wouldn't take much for a major international power to spin up a mighty mining system and start tampering with it.
The idea of a distributed ledger that can be done worldwide without any government involvement has value by itself.
Indeed. It allows people to get around all those pesky anti-money laundering legislations and international sanctions. Otherwise it provides nothing of value to anyone who has ever needed to transfer money, something that is flung around in the billions across national borders daily without issue and without bitcoin.
The idea that you can buy, hold, and sell bitcoin somewhat anonymously* has value by itself.
If you want to buy, hold and sell something, then you're far better off doing it using traditional stocks issued in paper format. If anonymity is your goal, announcing your trades and holdings on a public ledger is kind of stupid, especially since that end goal of something that can't be used directly as a currency in an meaningful way for anything legal needs to at some point be converted into an actual useful currency... by someone who very much is either doing something illegal, or subject to government rules.
Congrats, you went from having a transaction and single holding tracked, to having your entire payment history tied to you, all because
Claiming something keeps growing can only be done based on comparing to past performance. You really got your brains handed to you on God's day off huh.
I like the part where you take something that is decided on a local council or state level and make out like the whole country is operating under those laws.
Because there's fundamentally no difference. Firstly none of this on a local level. Secondly the governments which run states are the same fundamental parties with the same principles and same legal applications that run the federal government. The differences is that separation of powers still make most things state issues.
Just because I quoted state laws doesn't mean the federal government is off scotts free. E.g. the recent laws to require age verification for pornography online is just the latest in a long history of attacks. I mean we've been running stories about Australia attempting to implement a Great Aussie Firewall since just after the millennium bug flop. In 2008 they attempted to introduce a "child-safe internet feed" forcing all ISPs to implement a national list of content blocked for children which hilariously resulted in my local dentist's website being blocked, presumably because iiNet agreed with the federal government's list that dental hygiene is nothing for kids. You know that the federal government passed a law that makes it illegal to import a "hateful" product? Filming a movie about Germany in the 1940s, well fuck you the props you bought will send you to jail. There's a guy in prison right now for spray painting "fuck Israel" on a car, not because of the car damage mind you, that crime carried a fine. Specifically the content of the message landed him in jail.
You know it's great we banned asbestos, there's no point to that material. But apparently in Australia you're allowed to manufacture and handle chemicals immediately dangerous to life and health, but grinding down an engineered sandstone which is rendered safe through simply wearing a P2 respirator (not even a P3) is too dangerous to be allowed in the world.
This isn't "we're banning lead paint" level of laws. This is laws which in some case make no fucking sense in the broader context of the country.
governments take it seriously
The only thing governments are taking seriously about it is closing tax loopholes. The only governments which really back bitcoin are those who are insanely fiscally irresponsible such as Brazil, El Salvador, and the country which has the most external debt on the planet, the USA.
So you support bitcoin do you? Let me guess, you're paying off your credit card debt with another credit card?
No claims of infinite growth have been made.
I'm going to make a claim about your education: "that just keeps growing and never stops."
Look up the words "keeps", "never" and "stops" in your favourite AI slop generator.
that just keeps growing and never stops
Bitcoin's current 8 month high is 30% lower than its all time peak. It stopped growing a while ago but shrank so much you lost your frame of reference. Do you claim your penis keeps growing and never stops every time you get an erection just because you pass out after cumming and forgot it's size before hand?
I remember during the president's first term that the translators complained a lot about him. They said they looked incompetent and were threatened to lose their jobs because of translating his rambling nonsense, and changing topics midway through sentences. Translators can deal with a lot in language but disjointed syntax is one of the most complicated to manage.
But their biggest gripe was that they signed an obligation to faithfully translate what was said, and translating Trumpish into a language someone understood would have had a side effect of making him sound more intelligent than he was.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/ar... From 2017
Well they are still justice, the question is justice for whom. It really just needs a subheading: Department of Justice _for white males_. And they'd have gotten away with it too were it not for those pesky laws.
How 'bout a trillion dollars in blood money to the parents?
Given that they aren't under the jurisdiction of the American legal system doing that would be welfare. And we can't afford welfare, not when there's an arch to build.
My "feefees" don't give shit about you. I'm only trying to help you have yourself taken a bit more seriously. You can learn from my comment, or ignore it and continue to look and act like a tosser when people are trying to help you.
If they're speaking as if they knew facts when they don't, then they're lying about their level of information.
Lying implies intent. Your entire thought process is non-sequitur since you're implying someone needs to know that which they don't know, which obviously they can't if they themselves are misinformed.
Again, most people here aren't liars, they are just idiots. Most.
But how do you guarantee massive popularity and huge financial success?
Market consolidation. People will sit and watch your shit long before they turn the TV off and find a hobby that involves getting off the couch.
Because Republicans believe the average American to be an uninformed lout.
Were they wrong? I mean look at the last election results.
Don't worry Hegseth will make sure heads roll. He's just looking for one attached to a vagina or with a low testosterone level.
Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.
