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I have to wonder what cryonics' cryptocurrency obsessives will say when the Biden Administration responds to the Russia/Ukraine crisis by pushing for the outlawing of cryptocurrencies to punish financially Russia's rulers and billionaire oligarchs, and it can get enough other countries to go along with the ban.

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Based on some rumors I've heard about Alcor lately, I wonder what living cryonicists are going to do if Alcor eventually sorts through its members' paperwork and decides that many, if not most, of the cryonauts it accepted years and decades earlier are retroactively underfunded. Then it removes their bodies and heads from the dewars to dispose of them with the goal of improving the organization's finances.

Eventually Alcor could wind up with only a few wealthy cryonauts in its custody who way overfunded their cryopreservations.

This would avoid a Chatsworth-style collapse of the organization, since Alcor could still have enough money to pay the bills. But it would betray the trust of all the throwaway cryonauts who joined Alcor in good faith and went into cryopreservation when they needed it at the agreed-upon funding of the time.

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