@tante what I find particularly distasteful about the whole bitcoin hype (other than it reinforcing capitalism) is when its actually used for transactions its done in a way to bypass taxes and laws of democratic govts like DE, NL and UK.

Although I personally feel drugs should be decriminalised, I think its a decision to be made by the democratic system and I also noticed cryptocurrencies being used to buy *tobacco* in DE and NL where tax isn't even excessive and helps fund public healthcare..

@bob @tante they were quite widely used to get drugs a few years ago but (in UK at least) the extra effort involved often led to middle class lads buying bulk and getting into dealing to friends to cover the costs/effort (and eventually ending up in prison, especially when they end up getting something stronger than expected and their friends start keeling over). Mention bitcoin even to a non tech person here and they immediately think "drugs/ransomware" payments.