Bitcoin Users Accused of White Supremacy

[pooya87]

You could actually watch the video starting here before throwing accusations

Why would I ever waste my time listening to what some of the most corrupt people on the planet say?

It's the guys at CNBC who called it a tool for money laundering white supremacist

It's funny that you think this makes a difference

[stompix]

Why would I ever waste my time listening to what some of the most corrupt people on the planet say?

I don't know, because I got used to people commenting on things after actually researching what that thing is?
Maybe if you didn't care that much you could have refrained yourself from making that post also and wasting your "precious" time?

Are you still so easily triggered by anything that goes in the US?  

Nice job getting everything wrong, it's not FOX accusing bitcoin of anything, it's the democrat side.

Whose favorite channel is Fox, as far as I've understood. I'm not in the US, though.

Insert coin, try again, Fox is the Republican propaganda machine, CNN and NBC are on the Democrat side.

[eaLiTy]

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What development? The Bitcoin community has always welcomed white supremacists, alt-rightists, neo-Nazis, self-identified-"libertarians"-who-are-actually-just-conservatives-who-want-to-smoke-pot, and other such scum. This isn't news. The mainstream media's just a little slow on the uptake (that's not news either).

It is true, even back in June 2011 when PayPal, Visa, Mastercard and all the major payment intermediaries blocked Wikileaks from accepting funds, they started accepting BTCitcoin and from that time, we are a target for any government and the media who is supporting anyone that are blocked by the mainstream systems. It is nothing new and some are hearing about these for the first time and whenever BTCitcoin is used to overcome the restrictions, you hear the same narrative repeated again and again  .

[franky1]

bitcoin does not welcome anyone.
its code not a brain and mouth.
bitcoin cant make conversation to welcome anyone.

its simply a open network anyone can use. so because anyone can use it. you will always find different types of people using it.

fiat is unwelcoming.
you cant even get a bank account unless you are documented. banks with their "patriot act" are more like white suprematists.
banks/america does not welcome the people that the statue of liberty pretends to welcome into america

maybe the statue of liberty should change from
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."

"Give me Your young huddled masses yearning to breathe free, so we can put them into detention camps, and then set them free back in their native country"

[DapanasFruit]

Same old same old accusations that have died on their own due to lack of merit. But this new white supremacist accusation against Bitcoin is rather surprising. How the heck did they come up with such an idea? Satoshi Nakamoto itself is not known to be white or black or whatever. Surely, he/she/they know the English language well, and yet the name is Asian, Japanese in particular. There's Mayor Suarez who's probably of Hispanic Origin. There's Mayor Adams of New York who's black. There's Andrew Yang who's of Asian or Taiwanese descent. I mean, how did they associate Bitcoin with white supremacy?

The biggest reason why there are those in the left-leaning legacy media associating Bitcoin with white supremacist is because they don't know Bitcoin in the first place. We know that Bitcoin is open to anyone regardless of color, race, political conviction and yes can also be used illegally...here in Bitcoin lies real democracy away from the control freaks in the government, the oligarchs in social media where censorship has been weaponized against groups of people who have different views, those in the established financial institutions whose mistakes the people are paying for years. In the eyes of these people if there is one perceived supremacist using Bitcoin then Bitcoin has become a friend of the white supremacist itself.

[pooya87]

Are you still so easily triggered by anything that goes in the US? 

Not everything, I only slightly care when someone spreads FUD, specially if it is being repeated on the internet by others. Like when the head of a banking cartel that has been involved in all kinds of fraudulent activities calls bitcoin a "fraud". I think only those who like the FUD don't get triggered by it.
Besides the fact that most of them are from US is not my fault

[Poker Player]

I think Tucker is misrepresenting what CNBC says. Tucker says "the crypto guys must be white supremacists", while the woman on CNBC says "crypto is an avenue for money laundering and white supremacist are taking options (apparently)".

Tucker is exaggerating what is being said. If we take the literal sense, Bitcoin is a tool like cash would be or like a knife or a shovel might be, as mentioned. Whatever Tucker says if it sounds far-fetched I'd rather look into it, as he tends to do things like this.

[pushups44]

It's true that there are some extremists using bitcoin to circumvent establishment payment rails, but bitcoin is designed to prevent financial censorship, especially when involving more legitimate activists. While most people find extremists repulsive, so long as they are not breaking any laws I don't see a problem with their use of bitcoin. Bitcoin is apolitical (in a general sense).

[buwaytress]

Fiat money itself was built to further entrench those in positions of supremacy, hard to argue anything that isn't money isn't.

But if this is a ploy to gain credibility, well, they're only wasting ad space. Might have been amusing to watch 6 years ago when this might have been a new angle but really, I haven't found misguided woke trash spewed by people who don't know any better even a bit funny when the drama all began.

[Wind_FURY]

It's the guys at CNBC who called it a tool for money laundering white supremacist

And that is the problem BTC is a tool.

I don't understand why this is a problem?
We all know bitcoin can be used for both good and bad things, that's no secret, it makes a lot of things easier for good poeple but for scammers also, but that can be said for everything so I don't understand the "problem" part.
Every single thing in this universe can be used as a tool for both good and bad things, for gods' sake not even the cross is an exception.

The only real problem here is that bitch from CNBC who labels things based on her interests not reality.
But well, nothing new from the leftists:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/bitcoin-surge-was-windfall-white-supremacists-research-finds-rcna8177

There were also some breakthroughs, and ground-breaking inventions during the past that were demonized by entities in high places who didn’t want to change their current order of things. The printing press, the automobile, the light bulb, and currently Bitcoin. How long should the network keep chugging along?