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Banking on Disarmament

Major digital currency’s terms of use: No firearm, ammunition purchases [More]

I thought crypto was meant to facilitate freedom, not become a controlling trap.

No way to ensure it’s “legal tender for all debts public and private”…?

And in a tangentially-related development, I’m trying to determine the truth and the timing of this:

All Your Purchase Are Belong to Us

Unlike decentralized digital currencies like Bitcoin, CBDCs are issued and backed by a government entity and transact on a centralized, permissioned blockchain. Not only would this CBDC model centralize Americans’ financial information, leaving it vulnerable to attack, it could be used as direct surveillance tool into the private transactions of Americans. [More]

Oh look: Joe Smith bought ammo…

And this sector is problematic. Shut it down.

[Via Antigone]

Asked and Answered

But Why? Democrat Mega-Donor Crypto King Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested In Bahamas Preventing His Congressional Testimony [More]

So is that what they call a rhetorical question?

[Via Michael G]

There’s Good Money in Tyranny

Democratic Rep Took Donations From Bankman-Fried, Lobbied Against Crypto Regulation, And Now Blames SEC For FTX’s Collapse [More]

And like all self-serving Marxist criminals, he wants you disarmed.

[Via bondmen]

Nothing to See Here

In other words, the corrupt Ukraine regime partnered with a corrupt crypto slush fund to take dollars from the corrupt US government and funnel them into the hands of corrupt Democrat candidates to win rigged mid-term elections. [More]

Nothing about that connection on CNN… so does that mean they’re helping bury it or does that mean fakery is being introduced to obscure the truth and protect something else?

I’m sure the media and Congress will get right on finding the truth about the second-largest donor to the utterly fraudulent “party of the workin’ man” after George Soros…

[Via Keith B]

UPDATE

Joseph Farah at WND.com has more.

[Via Jess]

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