Russia has been paying for war with oil and gas revenue – taxation – not debt.
This is beginning to fail, as Ukrainian drone strikes and sanctions have been cutting into tax revenues. But it's taken years for this to happen.
Countries will be able to pay for war just fine on a Bitcoin standard.
Peter Todd
npub1ej…3ndrm
2025-01-02 10:26:00
in reply to nevent1q…h04w
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2025-01-02 10:26:00Event JSON
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