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>>Ozarki+(OP)
Is this president extremely concerned about drug dealers and gangs in the US?

Why is he pardoning a drug trafficker?

>>agentu+2w
Pardoning Ulbricht was a campaign promise he made at the Libertarian National Convention in response to it being a popular demand among the libertarians.

>>shoxid+qy
And more importantly, among the crypto crowd that dumped millions into his campaign. Libertarians have essentially no clout or money on their own. This was a pardon bought by Coinbase and Gemini and A16z.

>>noirbo+qz
Why would Coinbase and Gemini and A16z care about an obviously shady person who reportedly tried to hire a person to kill someone? surely they could find a more legitimate hero to advance the legal crypto case? i mean, it's kind of like them - companies trying to do legit crypto - rallying today around SBF when they already have image problems from other exchanges?

>>twelve+YB
There is no "legit crypto" - it's a myth. Every single exchange that swaps spit with the Bitcoin ledger is laundering money made by criminal (often violent or fraudulent) means. Many if not most altcoins are equally as fraudulent, or used to launder ("tumble") other suspicious coins.

Let's be honest anyways, the cryptocurrency "industry" as we know it is less than 4 years old, and in 4 years it may be gone. Exchanges like coinbase and so-called defi innovators like A16Z need this legally-dubious signalling or they'll risk never having another leader corrupt enough to sanction their behavior.

>>tallda+NE
I got cash out of an airport currency exchange ATM the other week, and when I tried to use it to by groceries yesterday, the cashier tested it for cocaine and it came back positive. There is no "legit cash".

>>beefle+IF
There is cocaine in some levels on any paper money that has been around for longer than a few weeks.

The weird thing here is that a cashier would test it!?

>>herbst+ac1
I think this is what GP was trying to get at, in response to GGP's claim about all crypto being directly tied to tumblers and illegal activity.

It wasn't confusing to me, but evidently the way it was worded confused others.

>>DaSHac+5x1
It's confusing because there's no logical point to it nor does it follow along as a regular conversation.

"Some cash has cocaine on it" has no logical relationship to "all cryptocurreny use is illegitimate".

If they wanted to refute the original claim and say that cryptocurrency has legitimate uses or if they wanted to make a separate point to say that cash is similarly only useful to criminals, they failed.