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The U.S. Treasury Department said on Sunday it would not enforce an anti-money laundering law that obliges millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners.
This is kinda a dumb question, he said
So one of his goals is to have some sort of electronic payment method, and a way to receive money electronically.
You can’t buy stuff online with cash. You could potentially buy a visa gift card with crypto though.
How are you buying the crypto with your cash if you don’t have a bank account though?
I don’t know how common this is in other countries, but here you can go to just about any grocery store or discount store and buy a Visa gift card with cash. I would argue if you have cash the easiest way to make an online purchase (especially back then) was to buy a Visa gift card at a retail store.
Ok lol let’s second guess the guy’s teenage decision making when he’s already stated it wasn’t optimal
Like, this “seemed” like the best thing to do. An essay about how this dude was wrong 16 years ago isn’t interesting.
You have no idea where he lived, or what was going on, it might be in his neighborhood there was a Bitcoin ATM, or check cashing places cashed to BTC or something. He might have had a wet dream about BTC and that solidified his decision. It doesn’t matter.