Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 天前Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measurewww.dlnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square237fedilinkarrow-up1759arrow-down116
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minus-squaretaladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·7 天前I don’t think people who give or take bribes usually like having a permanent history of the transaction.
minus-squareshortwavesurfer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·7 天前Which is why they take the bribe in monero
minus-squareFarceOfWill@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·7 天前Big incentive to keep trump in power if your bribery of him is public record. Someone else might do something about it
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-27 天前corpos might not necessarily want this. sometimes they want to get rid of these people when public opinion about them is too dirty, and get a fresh puppet in.
minus-squaretfm@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 天前https://cointelegraph.com/explained/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-mixer-and-how-does-it-work
minus-squaretaladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 天前Workarounds for the shortcomings certainly make bribes possible with crypto but not exactly easier than with traditional currencies.
minus-squareUlrich@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-26 天前Why would they care? Perfectly legal in the US. And consumers/citizens obviously don’t care either.
I don’t think people who give or take bribes usually like having a permanent history of the transaction.
Which is why they take the bribe in monero
Big incentive to keep trump in power if your bribery of him is public record. Someone else might do something about it
corpos might not necessarily want this.
sometimes they want to get rid of these people when public opinion about them is too dirty, and get a fresh puppet in.
https://cointelegraph.com/explained/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-mixer-and-how-does-it-work
Workarounds for the shortcomings certainly make bribes possible with crypto but not exactly easier than with traditional currencies.
Why would they care? Perfectly legal in the US. And consumers/citizens obviously don’t care either.