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thenewgreen  ·  3618 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I was just on the Diane Rheem show defending bitcoin

Somebody called in and asked why the people that are being ransomed don't just sue Bitcoin after the fact? The question was actually answered by the panel as if it was a legitimate question. I had to call in and correct them and let them know that in a sense suggesting that you could sue bitcoin would be like suggesting that someone sue cash. It's even more of an impossibility than that given that cash has a central authority and Bitcoin doesn't. I also made the point that people have used cash as ransom for years and nobody talks about how evil cash is, I said that bitcoin isn't the bad guy here.





mk  ·  3618 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, that's pretty ridiculous.

Brings this to mind:

thenewgreen  ·  3618 days ago  ·  link  ·  
mk  ·  3618 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wow. Well done.

Funny, the 'expert' that 'agreed with your second point about cash' didn't actually understand your point. :)

thenewgreen  ·  3618 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, he was the Katie Couric in that call.

kleinbl00  ·  3618 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, man. I haven't seen that in 10 years.