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Ethereum is easy to change (hard forks often) and so cannot be expected to preserve any key characteristics like emission curve or even the permissionless nature.

In fact, Ethereum's monetary policy did change in the past.

Incorrect, Ethereum is still using PoW.

I don't give a shit about Wired categorization. MobileCoin is a company. It has a fucking CEO. Cryptocurrency is by definition decentralized.

MobileCoin is not a cryptocurrency.

How about helping competition to beat FAANG network effects by deregulating everything?

Increasingly, "more regulation" seems to be the go-to solution for any and all societal problems.

There seem to be no free market capitalists left on HN anymore :(

Good.

You seem to have a very US centric view. There are other 7.5 billion people in the World.

"Temporarily" like a f**cking YEAR. Some business owners committed suicide over this, so I guess its safe to say permanent for them at least.

"Temporary"? It's been A YEAR and tens of thousands of businesses and families going bankrupt. And there is no end in sight to this.

Poland.

Please help me understand.

Say Monica runs a clothing shop and sells clothes (including face masks and sun glasses) to people she suspects are drug dealers.

And we are not talking a single pair of sun glasses - she is running the clothing shop 8 hours a day, every day, for many years.

Well, she facilitated criminal activity and must go to jail, right?

> That will deter 99% of the potential users from ever trying it out.

Nah, we had this kind of ban on western fiat currencies in communist Poland. And guess what, illegal p2p trading of USD worked just fine.

This will get you nowhere. Already, Monero successfully employs general CPU-s for its PoW. Bitcoin could switch to another PoW algorithm if critically necessary. Decentralized cryptocurrencies are beautiful hydras.

> Just a small group of hyper enthusiasts

You are mistaken, Sir. We are legion.