Thanks for the link. For anybody questioning authenticity, that person shows his source here
https://nitter.net/bernardbagship1/status/1505245148241969161#m
Which in turn takes from this NBC video posted in this tweet.
https://nitter.net/CurtisHouck/status/1504496907858624515
It does appear to be an actual NBC segment, with a very heavily edited photo.
As the IT Director of a health care company, and with a background in software, I'm quite familiar at some level with all aspects of technology. And frankly, nobody has ever been able to answer my questions about blockchain with anything other than some form of "You just don't understand it, boomer."
Again, If the blockchain ledger is public, then government can gain control over it. How do you know whether or not the US government already controls 50%+1 of the Bitcoin ledger servers in existence? How could you tell?
Edit: For a sufficiently motivated government (the US government seems to be pretty motivated these days) what prevents this: https://braiins.com/blog/how-much-would-it-cost-to-51-attack-bitcoin
So if I have an offline wallet on a USB thumb drive, and I make bit for bit copies of that thumb drive, what's stopping me from spending the same bitcoin multiple times?
Either a transaction is offline or it's online. If it's a totally offline transaction, there's no way for the receiver to guarantee authenticity. If it's online, it can be tracked and/or denied by a server under government control.
I don't think she said anything people didn't already know was coming. Governments weren't just going to let people continue to circumvent their monetary systems of control.
In my mind, the problem with crypto is this:
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If crypto is centralized via a public ledger, exchanges, etc, then it is controllable. What's to stop the government from controlling the centralized servers?
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If crypto is not centralized via private wallets, etc, then it is not trustworthy. What's to stop someone from counterfeiting coins?
I'm sure the crypto kiddies will call me a dinosaur, and tell me I'm missing out on huge profits, But I'll stick with my PMs, thank you very much. As I always try to explain, crypto can't be both a get rich quick scheme and a currency. It can only be one or the other.
The icing on the cake was that the "witness" to these incubator atrocities was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US. Very convenient.
That assumes they know where the funds are going. GSG could be using a brand new account to transfer from, leaving the tyrants with no idea where the money is coming from or going to. And they would get major pushback from large corporations if they just started blocking all inbound wire transfers.
HIV was the first attempt to create a pandemic, but people actually got scared and stopped spreading it. Fauci realized his mistake was trying to create a deadly pandemic. The better approach was to create a weak but easily transmissible virus, and use that to get people to beg for the "cure" which is in fact the real deadly pandemic.
Someone should probably do a search of Durbin's hard drive.