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Perhaps the killer app for cryptocurrency will be paid porn? Might be a stretch, but it's hard content to moderate and the demand for it is huge.
I'm sure an opaque nonreversable transaction, and nonmodifiable permanent globally-readable transaction ledger will fit that application perfectly, against LEO, blackmail, and fraudsters.
A sad move in the end, a situation that is neither as black nor as white as the participants involved try to frame it. Yes: Pornhub had a massive problem, not with child depictions, but with "revenge porn" and similar materials. They definitely needed a slap on the wrist for that one. But... this is not about children, not about "revenge porn". This is part of an organized, fundamentalist-Evangelical-Christian anti-s…
I've sometimes wondered what might have happened if 9/11 had occurred a couple of months later. My fuzzy understanding is that through 2001, US DoJ was working up a major effort, a "War on Porn". Mid September, shortly before kicking off, that focus became an embarrassing liability, and was quietly shelved. So instead of a big explicit declared War, with associated societal reflection, we've had a long quiet shadow war, with misdirection integral. Though hoping for societal political reflection seems increasingly quaint.
I mean this in all seriousness: it amazes me that people still pay for pornography these days.
Yet people still pay for Netflix.
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I'm sure an opaque nonreversable transaction, and nonmodifiable permanent globally-readable transaction ledger will fit that application perfectly, against LEO, blackmail, and fraudsters.
I’ve been convinced for years that the only real use case for crypto currencies is privacy centric transactions. Meanwhile Bitcoin is now talked about everywhere mainstream so people keep buying Bitcoin as a speculative investment and at the same time Monero barely gets any press coverage.
The same thing happened to me, but the only difference was I didn't do anything close to illegal. In the late 90s I made a massively multiplayer online drug dealing game. At its peak there were about 3M daily active users. I went through a few shared hosting companies as I learned to optimize and scale the stack. One of them cut me off, stole all the source code, and launched their own copy of the game. I couldn't af…