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  • that anonymity is what cash is for.

    Crytpo is a currency of crime and corruption. The biggest problem Pablo Escobar had was moving around thousands of pounds of money, a lot of which he had to bury and was eaten by rats. Cash is hard to launder. Ryan Wedding grew his empire very fast using crypto across borders.

    The only advantage of crypto is that it doesn’t physically exist, and no one has to report sending or receiving large quantities of it, unlike cash.

    $1M in 20s is 40-50kg of weight. Hard to smuggle up your ass.


  • The studies are not iffy, but if you try and publish any data questioning the safety of artificial sweetners, you could get turfed from a university because they have a massive war chest of lawyers defending a $600M industry.

    Aspartame is two synthetic amino acids and can interfere with brain signaling, especially in people who replace any water in their diet with diet sodas. No one anticipated the gluttony of diet soda drinkers, and FDA safety trials used a fraction of intake of the real world. US consumes 12 GALLONS per capita a year.

    Similarly, MSG industry has so many attack bots out there that if you even question if a brain neurotransmitter analog has side effects they label you a racist.

    As a biochemist, I would avoid any artificial sweetner or flavor enhancer. Aspartame certainly triggers carcinogenic pathways and since it came on the market, diabetes rates rapidly increased.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38769413/