I feel like this didn’t get enough traction: Cryptocurrencies align the interests of millions of young, emotionally-desperate gamblers with the criminal oligarchs that money laundering legislation was set up to control.#democracy #digitalGovernance #AIEthicshttps://mastodon.social/@j2bryson/113464379742552002

Even if you're totally sick of this all, you really, really want to read this if you haven't before (the crew are the Rolling Stones' roadies!) Or even if you have but might have forgotten the final "details" Keith Richards tends to leave out. Then get Bezos to read it.https://web.archive.org/web/20150825111054/http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=819781

@j2bryson You soon get to the part where you learn that there are a) 16 virtually (but not completely) identical laws at the state level that are b) implemented by 32 state-level agencies, which have c) formed 3-4 (no one is quite sure) consortia to develop a host of incompatible software platforms. These must never be used in Saarland (b/c of the terms of accession in 1957), the southern chunk of RLP (a separate treaty with ) and those suburbs of Hamburg that once belonged to the Kingdom of