Twitter Bans Notorious Bitfinex and Tether Critic Bitfinex'ed (thenextweb.com)

Twitter has officially suspended Bitfinex'ed -- a notorious internet sleuth who has long speculated that popular exchange desk Bitfinex has quietly been printing its dollar-pegged Tether digital tokens out of thin air, a move that could lead to the collapse of Bitcoin and perhaps even the entire market, The Next Web reports. From the report: In an email to TNW, Bitifinex'ed said that Twitter has yet to clarify the reasons for the suspension. "This account has been suspended," the message reads. It is worth noting that in addition to the claims made against Bitfinex and Tether, Bitfinex'ed has previously accused other well-known figures within the crypto-community of foul play. Indeed, earlier in January the anonymous investigator suggested Litecoin Charlie Lee might have engaged in insider trading during his time at Coinbase. Lee ultimately denied these claims. In the aftermath of this altercation, waves of Lee supporters took to Twitter to condemn the premises of the piece Bitfinex'ed authored.

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Re:bernie sanders

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the US has an electoral college for historical reasons having to do with the representatives' travel time

And yet you can't admit out loud WHY travel time would matter. Why not simply get a tally of votes from all of the states and send them in to DC for a nation-wide count? Because we don't run the country like a PTA meeting. We're NOT, for very good reasons, a democracy. We're a republic of (now) 50 states and some associated territories. Just as we use the different structures of our bicameral legislature to prevent high-population members of the republic from lording it over the lower-population members, the electoral college is a structure that's explicitly designed to buffer the impact of a bunch of urbanites hundreds of miles or a continent away running the lives of the people in the middle who do things like grow their wheat for them.