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> I would rephrase this to say, in America we have less trust in government and more trust in the individual.

I've seen that said many times in fora (fortunately not so often on HN), but the only people that seem to subscribe to it are the preppers and the gun fanatics, usually using some kind of reference to words that have not been updated in a couple of centuries. It's about as useful as wanting to back to the glory days of England.

Americans trust their government on average just about as much as people of other countries trust theirs, with a notable exception made for the Swiss.

> The distinction is this: No one is forcing anyone to use Libra its your choice. : )

And it is the choice of the democratically chosen governments of France and Germany to decide to so something about it, and I'm fully in agreement with that.

The last we need is for the Zuckerbergs to have the power to start dictating monetary policy, the amount of power he has today is already way more than he should have.

Note that neither Germany nor France has decided to 'block bitcoin', or outlaw it (which they could do, but it remains to be seen how much effect that would have). And we are not forced to use that either.




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