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The U.S. Treasury Department said on Sunday it would not enforce an anti-money laundering law that obliges millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners.

  • Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    How did having cryptocurrency enable you to have financial independence? Besides few places accepting crypto for promotional purposes (remember when you could buy a pizza with bitcoin?), you couldn’t spend cryptocurrency on any of life’s needs that would allow you to establish yourself financially.

    FFS. Go lecture my 18yr old self. I’ve grown up since then. I didn’t say it was the correct or best option. All I said is that I was desperate.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      FFS. Go lecture my 18yr old self. I’ve grown up since then. I didn’t say it was the correct or best option. All I said is that I was desperate.

      My apologies, it sounded like you were still defending that choice as a correct one for an 18 year old. Certainly won’t hold you accountable for your 18 year old self. I did equally (if not worse) stupid stuff in my youth.

      I’m now asking about what lead to that choice, and what the value proposition of that choice looked like to 18-year-old you. As in, if you got into crypto as a replacement for a bank account for …reasons. Did crypto accomplish anything you wanted out of a bank account? Or was it “a bank is a money place and crypto is a money place, therefore crypto is a replacement for a bank”?