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Comment by mandmandam

> PS: my preferred solution to the problems created by cryptocurrencies is to treat them all like child pornography: totally illegal, possession a strict liability offense, choke off interoperability with real currencies at the credit agency/bank interchange level, and make them useless for non-criminals, at which point only criminals will bother with them. And India is going down this route.

If that's a joke, I fail to see how it's funny ... It's wild to see such rabid hyperbole, lumping all decentralised currency into a single basket with child pornography (!!) go completely unremarked on.

BTW the linked article from 2018 re India's "ban" talks about an order which was struck down by the Indian Supreme Court in March 2020.

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