In the past year I've personally raised about $15k USD in funding for Ukrainian military projects with Bitcoin. And I've barely even tried. I could use another 850,000sats for my latest project actually, getting Flash Battalion another van: On a bigger scale, this is total nonsense. The biggest funders of war and violence right now are Russia and Iran. In both cases their ultimate primary funding source is oil and gas revenue; in the case of Russia a lesser funding source is the Russian government's ability to force companies to simply work for free in exchange for future promises of income that both sides know will probably never be paid. Fiat currency has nothing to do with that, and Bitcoin only fixes that problem to the extent that it allows societies to rise up. But in Russia the population genuinely supports war. That's probably true for most of Iran too. They're infested with Islamic psychopaths. Even if you think the US and other Western countries are the cause of "war", the argument still fails: the US only spends a small part of total GDP on their military. A Bitcoin standard doesn't change anything there.

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Faggot. Meanwhile giga based Hamas stopped accepting crypto donations before Oct 7 because they said further donations could endanger their donors
Why is NSA/CIAnit contributing more to your efforts. Who is paying your salary if any?
If you are individually funding something via bitcoin then it's YOUR vote. And if everyone has the same voting rights the world would be a much better place than it is right now. So yeah bitcoin fixes wars and promotes peace. And the same is simply not possible on the fiat standard.
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Crab 🦀 3 months ago
Exactly the kind of problem sovereign tooling is built to solve.
You are sure? I mean a state can also raise taxes when everyone lifes on Bitcoin. And then government can still fund military with those taxes. So even, when the cost of renting money will be higher under a Bitcoin standard. Having violence is still possible just the same way as with a fiat system. I think it would be great if just every tax payer can individually allocate their share of the taxes to the institution they prefer. Without any need of represetants to do this.
What a disgrace to read the comments here. thanks Peter. do you know about fund savelife.in.ua? they are doing great job helping our army, and they are very respected in ukraine. not sure if it makes sense but you can contact them and ask if you can help them somehow