• dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I don’t think the government should have ANY, regardless of how the government purchased the fake assets. It’s a fucking terrible idea for exactly the reason you described. The government should not be involved in such a high risk, unsecured, volatile, ridiculously easily stolen venture.

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        When there’s a disruptive force, you have a few options

        1. try to kill it so it can’t disrupt

        2. do nothing and be disrupted

        3. dip you toes in, so if disruption happens you aren’t blindsided and can hopefully wade through it

        4. take a chance and swim in it so you can be on the leading edge of that disruption.

        They’ve kinda tried option 1 but failed.

        Option 2 could lead to long term consequences

        Option 3 leaves them prepared but not overly exposed

        Option 4 would be pretty risky

        So really, option 3 is probably the best bet given option 1 hasn’t been working.