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TL;DR: new regime in honduras is hostile to our dearest libertarian crypto bros, asserts sovereignty and tells them where to stick it.

A group of prominent international economists is applauding the recent move by Honduran President Xiomara Castro to push back against American crypto investors attempting to seize billions in public money from the Central American nation.

Background:

A group of libertarian investors teamed up with a former Honduran government — which was tied at the hip with narco-traffickers and came to power after a U.S.-backed military coup — in order to implement the world’s most radical libertarian policy, which turned over significant portions of the country to those investors through so-called special economic zones. The Honduran public, in a backlash, ousted the narco-backed regime, and the new government repealed the libertarian legislation. The crypto investors are now using the World Bank to force Honduras to honor the narco-government’s policies.

[ image of cryptobros making the face Wil E Coyote makes after running off a cliff ]

The crypto investors are now using the World Bank to force Honduras to honor the narco-government’s policies.

[Castro] has hit upon an elegant solution: She has taken steps to withdraw Honduras from ICSID. The crypto crowd is crying foul.

Among the dozens of signatories to the Progressive International praising Castro’s decision to exit the arbitration court are prominent South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang; Chilean Gabriel Palma, of the “Palma Ratio of inequality”; American economist Jeffrey Sachs; former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis; British economist Ann Pettifor; and Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh.

Predictably, the international community is going "LOL"

You may be asking, who's winning in all of this?

In its case before the ICSID, Próspera retained a top lobbying firm, employing former Democratic lawmaker Kendrick Meek, to pressure Honduras to pay up.

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[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 17 points 9 months ago

A conference Próspera held on Roatán last year signaled the company’s ethic. “Próspera aims to be the best jurisdiction for the crypto/web3 industry in the world, and we welcome the best ideas on how to achieve that with a sound legal framework,” said Chris Wilson of Próspera in publicity materials that described the confab as “specifically designed for legal hackers, crypto lawyers, jurisdictional polymaths, and businesses that want to create better laws to do business under.”

what is a jurisdictional polymath

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 18 points 9 months ago

Can launder money in multiple jurisdictions.

[-] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago

I like to picture it as somebody with a polymathic understanding of how to commit a variety of financial crimes crossing jurisdictional boundaries

[-] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You know I wanted to come up with a joke but I don’t think that term is even grammatically correct nonsense, even to do the joke I wanted you’d have to figure out how someone can be a polymath of jurisdictions and then riff on how that’s nonsense

Oh I get it, they mean accounting fraud

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 14 points 9 months ago

A guy who knows the age of consent in every country by heart, except for financial regulations. There's a lot of overlap too.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 9 months ago

regulatory parkour

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 13 points 9 months ago

Extradition treaty memorizer

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 9 months ago

“Excuse me, but this club is only for legislative arbitrageurs”

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 9 months ago

jurisdictional polymath

To borrow a term from the podcast "Scam Goddess", a "serial entrepreneur", which in turn is just a scam artist.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 9 months ago

Crime Rockstar

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