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While I don't have any sympathy about Islamic State at all, I love seeing crypto being taken seriously, especially to bypass US sanctions.

No authorithy, be it US or any other country, should have such a power.

It's good to see this patriotic ideology finally coming to an end.

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Without this power, the alternative is munitions. Is that the preference? Isn’t the non violence force projection more desirable when considering loss of life?

If your problem is with a superpower having superior force projection on the world stage, crypto doesn’t solve for that. The drone strikes and assassinations would still happen.

The Islamic State is ISIS. Iran calls itself an Islamic Republic.

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