>I stopped reading your rant here because it's clear you are not familiar with financial regulations.
This is the magic of HN. One day the community will be decrying crypto for being unregulated. "It is all a scam", "We need reasonable regulation", "Crypto is a ponzi", "There's no legitimate reason for irreversible transactions", a million more stock lines we have all read here before.
The next day HN will attack PayPal for their exorbitant fees, policies and other hurdles which are necessary to comply with regulations.
While some of PayPal's business policies are not defensible, most are understandable. Especially when you consider the regulatory overhead they have as a worldwide business.
If HN doesn't like it, one solution would be a less regulated environment. If users love regulations, they should accept the fees as a cost of compliance. Either way, if others choose to operate in an unregulated cryptosphere, it would be nice to see a bit of "live and let live".
Any kind of generalization is somewhat inaccurate. Especially as individuals are not themselves categories. Individual posters may or may not fit into this generalization. It is simply my perception of the prevailing preferences.
Would it be more palatable if I had singled out individual users and their post histories?
This is the magic of HN. One day the community will be decrying crypto for being unregulated. "It is all a scam", "We need reasonable regulation", "Crypto is a ponzi", "There's no legitimate reason for irreversible transactions", a million more stock lines we have all read here before.
The next day HN will attack PayPal for their exorbitant fees, policies and other hurdles which are necessary to comply with regulations.
While some of PayPal's business policies are not defensible, most are understandable. Especially when you consider the regulatory overhead they have as a worldwide business.
If HN doesn't like it, one solution would be a less regulated environment. If users love regulations, they should accept the fees as a cost of compliance. Either way, if others choose to operate in an unregulated cryptosphere, it would be nice to see a bit of "live and let live".
You cannot have your cake and eat it too.