President Donald Trump signed off on several eyebrow-raising pardons this week, including a convicted fraudster he had already freed from prison for a different fraud scheme during his first term.
My conspiracy theory is that BTC took off because Russia used as a tool to avoid sanctions. If you look at a chart the timeline matches up and they have had sizeable crypto holdings.
Not a hypothetical. I spend a lot of time in Asian factories as they’re bringing up more capacity to avoid Chinese tariffs. The vast majority fund their out-of-China-operations with BTC because they can move it around without interference from the Chinese government. I saw more than a few Russian groups touring these new factories.
Oh 100% agreed. Also no surprise that the likes of Musk and Russia have heavily promoted, defended, and relied upon encrypted communications like Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, etc.
My conspiracy theory is Rand Paul hand-delivered a key to Putin when he flew to Moscow.
Personally I’m partial to believing that capitalism is like a nuclear reactor; can be good, can be bad. Needs sophisticated control rods to maintain stability and prevent it from getting out of control.
Nordic model nations in a nutshell who are realized not idealized models for some of the happiest and most stable nations on the world.
Easier to take bribes with crypto. I still stand by this being a huge factor in reduced accountability and accelerating corruption.
My conspiracy theory is that BTC took off because Russia used as a tool to avoid sanctions. If you look at a chart the timeline matches up and they have had sizeable crypto holdings.
Not a hypothetical. I spend a lot of time in Asian factories as they’re bringing up more capacity to avoid Chinese tariffs. The vast majority fund their out-of-China-operations with BTC because they can move it around without interference from the Chinese government. I saw more than a few Russian groups touring these new factories.
Oh 100% agreed. Also no surprise that the likes of Musk and Russia have heavily promoted, defended, and relied upon encrypted communications like Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, etc.
My conspiracy theory is Rand Paul hand-delivered a key to Putin when he flew to Moscow.
Corruption succeeds within a corrupt system.
Personally I’m partial to believing that capitalism is like a nuclear reactor; can be good, can be bad. Needs sophisticated control rods to maintain stability and prevent it from getting out of control.
Nordic model nations in a nutshell who are realized not idealized models for some of the happiest and most stable nations on the world.