Perhaps it's not as life altering as jail or fines, but still: no holidays in Florida or Hawaii. No meeting peers at a congres in the US. Not even using flights from American carriers to go to South America, as they will likely pass via a US hub.
Worse. If they ignore the whole thing, at some point they will get condemned of contempt of court. That's a criminal offense. That means you can try and get interpol involved. Once you have an interpol Red Notice to your name, international travel to any civilized country becomes complicated.
Look at the risks involved in having central banks as the final counterparty for all our government's fiat monies: [0]. This is why increasingly companies, banks, pension and insurance funds, and governments are turning to it a a pristine global digital collateral with no counterparty risk.
“The key question facing Bitcoin nearing the onset of 2022 is whether it’s peaking or simply a consolidating bull market,” wrote a recent Blomberg Intelligence report[1]. “We believe it’s the latter, and see the benchmark crypto well on its way to becoming global digital collateral in a world going that way.”
[0] Consider the multiple hyperinflation disasters of the 20th century, I.e., the century of central banks. https://wtfhappenedin1971home.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/do...
[1] https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/10/1489771_Crypto...
This is quite irrelevant to the vast majority of Earth's population. I know some Americans consider the US to be the center of the world, but I doubt that sentiment is prevalent in Russia of all places.
> Perhaps it's not as life altering as jail or fines, but still: no holidays in Florida or Hawaii. No meeting peers at a congres in the US. Not even using flights from American carriers to go to South America, as they will likely pass via a US hub.
This is both telling, and curious. The kind of mental model of the world required to foster this as a concern for most people, is interesting.