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god this is reposted so many times, SOO MANY TIMES public service advisory: read the whole btc wiki, there's a lot of great stuff in there! https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agent https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script Links of note: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bootstrapping-a-decentr...
oh great cryptocurrency zealot, how must we repent for our transgressions against the faith?
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There was a tweet [1] from Vitalik Buterin on this exact topic. He was arguing that „possession“ (as in data on the blockchain) does not impose risks on others. Tweet was removed quickly. [1] https://steemit.com/ethereum/@titusfrost/ethereum-s-vitalik-...
> This entire Ethereum to me wreaks of New World Order involvement, just look at the members of the Ethereum Alliance. > Also I would suggest trying EOS which is supposed to wipe out Ethereum and hopefully will. I now fully endorse EOS as an alternative to Ethereum. > I also wanted to address the slanderous attacks against me stating that I am an "Anti-Semite" which is completely bogus. I criticize Zionists who are a…
god this is reposted so many times, SOO MANY TIMES public service advisory: read the whole btc wiki, there's a lot of great stuff in there! https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agent https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script Links of note: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bootstrapping-a-decentr...
When PGP was released in the early 90s, one of the arguments used against it was "child porn". When P2P networks using DHT became viable earlier in this century, one of the arguments used against the networks was "child porn". The tech still remains and still functions, arguments or not.
The difference is between "the technology" and an "implementation of the technology". Sure, P2P DHT exists. Just like blockchains exist. But a specific blockchain, which is append-only, is trivial to make illegal by embedding illegal content in it, making every user of it technically in possession of illegal material. You can use a DHT w/o breaking the law. You cannot store child porn on your computer without breakin…
So who's going to shut a blockchain down? I don't see it happening.
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In addition to illegal content, one could just put a huge amount of data in there to accelerate what seems to be a built in problem of ever increasing storage requirements.
The size of each block is fixed, and the transaction fee is proportional to the number of bytes in the transaction, so you could block people from making transactions (if you were willing to outbid them) but couldn't make the chain grow faster.
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You can make a browser extension extracting illegal data from innocuous images on twitter
Only by using your own stock of illegal data.
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Revenge porn. You just have information. The ex-girlfriend shouldn‘t make a drama ouf of that. The photo is only a number!
I see a lot of confusion around this topic - sharing porn images without the person's consent should always remain illegal. But just the fact that you have some images on your hard drive? That shouldn't be a crime in itself. If you have naked images of your ex-partner, they don't magically become revenge porn until the moment you share them without permission(at which point it's a crime and it's already punishable by…
Sharing MP3s? It's just a number.
Sending death threats? Just a number.
Directing relatives to the money drop so they may get their loved one back? Just a number.
So the obvious bit here is that an adversarial actor can poison the blockchain with bits that make downloading, storing and processing the blockchain a highly illegal act. This may have a chilling effect on participating in the network, thus reducing the number of nodes, and undermining the trust on the blockchain and in the coin because the reduced requirement of computing power needed to mutate the blockchain. Acco…
could they be persecuted as facilitators of the ilegal distribution?
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The size of each block is fixed, and the transaction fee is proportional to the number of bytes in the transaction, so you could block people from making transactions (if you were willing to outbid them) but couldn't make the chain grow faster.
hence you can only do that if you have enough money. and that is exactly what visa is doing.