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		WrtCdEvrydy on May 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nearly 200K Medical Records of US Military Veteran... > ban the exchange of crypto for fiat in the USA? This will have a huge positive effect on carbon emissions, chip shortages, and actually reducing ransomware. Makes sense, we did it with drugs and there's no more drugs.

ArkanExplorer on May 18, 2021 [–]

Drugs are not a unit of exchange that rely on markets, they are consumables.

A better comparison would be online gambling - which has been banned effectively in the US.

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