localist on Nostr: As well as the anti-freedom money pretext, this of course would result in precedent ...

As well as the anti-freedom money pretext, this of course would result in precedent for the grubby marxists to pick other “clean” and “unclean” uses of energy and start taxing our consumption accordingly.

Energy is life. Bitcoin is the thin end of the wedge.

quoting note1290…wdqj

The Biden administration and its allies throughout the federal government do not actually care about the facts. They are intentionally ignoring them because they get in the way of the ultimate goal; suppress bitcoin and make it as hard as possible for American citizens to leverage the most liberating network humanity has ever come into contact with so that they can usher in a CBDC to usher people into a tightly controlled digital panopticon in the wake of the crumbling of the incumbent monetary and financial systems as well as the loss in confidence in the institution of the federal government itself.

https://www.tftc.io/biden-administration-30-percent-excise-tax-on-bitcoin-miners/