Gates and his wife submitted to a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything (AMA), and Mr. Gates’ gave some unusual views on cryptocurrency. "It is a rare technology that has caused deaths in a fairly direct way.”
The social media billboard platform, Reddit, is famous for its innovative feature, Ask-Me-Anything (AMA). It’s a freewheeling, open (mostly) question and response thread placing constituents or fans in near direct contact with the connected, famous, powerful.
Questions during Mr. Gates’ sixth AMA revolved from the silly to topically pertinent, and inevitably headed toward cryptocurrency. Askur1337 put it straight: “Whats [sic] your opinion on Crypto Currencies?”
Gates answers: “I don’t think this is a good thing. The Governments ability to find money laundering and tax evasion and terrorist funding is a good thing,” repeating cannards long ago discarded by sober analysts. “Right now crypto currencies are used for buying fentanyl and other drugs,” he typed, “so it is a rare technology that has caused deaths in a fairly direct way.”
