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by triceratops 870 days ago
You're criticizing GP for taking an absolutist position ("Crypto is useless") but then doing the same yourself ("KYC is useless").
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latchkey 870 days ago
Eh? You just made up the quote for the OP (and me for that matter), which implies that you're just inserting your own opinion.
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triceratops 870 days ago
Yeah I paraphrased. But was it really so wrong? (Btw I didn't downvote you if it matters)

"KYC is useless" is a reasonable summary of "KYC exists to make life hard. It solves no real problems".

And is there a big difference between "Crypto is useless" and "crypto does not solve any real world problems"?

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latchkey 870 days ago
Paraphrasing on absolutist positions seems pretty wrong to me if that is the point you're trying to make.

I could have left the KYC portion off of the original comment and thus this one point feels like a festering wound for a meth addict (anti-crypto HN) to pick at instead of being focused on the larger message.

Regardless, we are off in the weeds debating about the word "useless" (a word neither the OP nor I never used), when it really has nothing to do with my original post at this point. This isn't interesting to discuss, so I'll stop now. Thanks.

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