We have reasons to believe Mr. Flappy is being illegally detailed by the #Moscow customs agents. We will not stop until he is found & sent along his way.
The risk of politician coins comes from the fact that they are such a perfect bribery vehicle. If a politician issues a coin, you do not even need to send *them* any coins to give them money. Instead, you just buy and hold the coin, and this increases the value of their holdings passively.
Furthermore, there is deniability: holding the coin is, in terms of financial effect, a linear combination of donating to the issuer and gambling. Hence you can have the intention of doing the former but when challenged claim that you are doing the latter.
You can even hold the coin privately, and show that you are holding it to whoever you need to show; you do not need any zero knowledge proofs, you just send a test transaction.
This is all risky to democracy, for reasons very similar to what I wrote in https://t.co/nEc5VWj34s , https://t.co/w2LeAoV0D7 and elsewhere. TLDR: the economic arguments for why markets are so great for "regular" goods and services do not extend to "markets for political influence".
I recommend politicians do not go down this path.
We have reasons to believe Mr. Flappy is being illegally detailed by the #Moscow customs agents. We will not stop until he is found & sent along his way.
We have reasons to believe Mr. Flappy is being illegally detailed by the #Moscow customs agents. We will not stop until he is found & sent along his way.
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@mac4atx @RyanDanz Source is Airbnb.
They’re spinning it as “Simple Pricing” and it’s of course for your benefit… US hosts were excluded a couple years ago, but since January US is included.
@Montana_Wong No reason for the host NOT to provide an extension cord. Was probably stolen by the previous guest… I’m sure the host had 3 spares in the closet too.