Peter Coates
1 min readFeb 16, 2022

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Your article makes some very interesting points. I certainly agree that it’s highly vulnerable. My arguments for why it must fail are long term; the actual proximate cause of the collapse will probably be something like what you cite. The potential kinds of interference you cite cancel Bitcoin as a solution to the only problem it was designed to solve: the rather theoretical problem of transferring money across the Internet without the involvement of a third party. I say “theoretical” because it’s only a realproblem for mathematicians. For normal citizens, PayPal, credit cards, and bank transfers work just fine and for criminals, paying in cash has been a solved problem for millennial; they use black attache cases. Crypto doesn’t attack their real problem, which is laundering large scale cash. Yes, crypto makes small time extortion easier, but that’s a niche business. So when the government initiates the controls you mention, what is the justification for a massive and clearly risky system for transferring billions of dollars from speculators to those who think real currencies are worth more than crypto?

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Peter Coates
Peter Coates

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I was an artist until my thirties when I discovered computers and jumped ship for a few decades. Now I'm back to it. You can probably find some on instagram.

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