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Comment by jqpabc123

4 months ago

I saw a quote somewhere:

    Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

The only thing new about crypto is paper has been replaced by electrons.

Individuals/banks minting their own money has been tried before. It didn't go well.

However, this quote is usually intended to be a warning, not an opportunity to run all the old scams again.

These people hear it and think "You mean we get to repeat history?!"

  • It’s not an uncommon joke about how easy it would be to be a serial killer or bank robber in “the olden days” - just need to move 1 town over and you can do it all again which has a strong similarity to being able to commit crypto crimes with hardly a consequence by virtue of doing it across jurisdictions..