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Unfortunately some people do think differently of you based on your accent, subconsciously or consciously

I'm no more a fan of billionaires than the next guy, but is this argument not extremely hypocritical:

“Billionaire Jeff Bezos could personally pay for enough vaccines for the whole world, yet he would rather spend his wealth on a thrill ride to space. COVID-19 is turning the gap between rich and poor into an unbridgeable chasm” - millionaires.

Millionaires could personally alleviate so much suffering in the world, yet they would rather buy... Nice houses, cars, and whatever else millionaires buy. You could extrapolate this argument all the way down even to those in objectively unfortunate circumstances. It's turtles all the way down.

These pleas seem motivated more out of virtue signaling than anything else.

The post i was responding to made the point - "do we want to attach extremely important things to a system that is by design irreversible?

Human life is both extremely important, and the loss of it is irreversible, at least for now :). People generally seem to be willing to take risks for the sake of convenience.

But in the end I believe we should be able to have our cake and eat it too - that is benefit from blockchain tech with safeguards preventing such scenarios

Good points, and in response I would say that not everything needs to happen directly on chain. Just as an example there can be some company that develops an interface between the blockchain and the user that audits their code, insures themselves in the case of software bugs, and provides users with the ability to eject their assets from the platform. Maybe there are regulations that protect consumers against these problems. Crypto/blockchain UX is not even in the "command line" phase yet, we're still writing punch cards and feeding them into computers in my opinion :)

by that logic we would never drive cars, ride airplanes, go to space, etc

Bitcoin is still only 1/10 the market cap of gold, with the argument by Bitcoiners being that the asset is a 10-100x improvement over gold.

Yeah, Bitcoin is great, I agree :)

It seems pretty natural to me that someone who believes in Bitcoin would also purchase it.

> Assets in registered wallets will simply not be relayed to unregistered wallets.

I find this hard to believe. I think it's more likely that the gov't would treat crypto like fiat, and make it law to report any income in crypto. It's not like you don't have to pay income on any salary you receive as cash, and cash is even moreso untrackable than crypto.