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by throw49sjwo1 613 days ago
That's the job of a government, and why would people fund it through taxes if it doesn't do its job?
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>That's the job of a government, and why would people fund it through taxes if it doesn't do its job?

Regulation and protection go hand in hand, if you don't want the regulation, you shouldn't be able to ask for the protection that goes along with it. If you want to gamble your real money by converting it to fake digital tokens, that's fine, but you shouldn't ask the government to use taxpayer money bail you out afterwards. If you want government protection for investments, you should invest in schemes that are regulated by the government instead.

Because many people do not want the government to regulate crypto.
Is that really a majority? I have big trouble believing so. The majority still doesn't know what is bitcoin (except "that money thing").