Blockchain’s Response to Apple • Hacker News Board

Re: Blockchain’s Response to Apple

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Post by sentenza » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 1:06 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #27

ye wrote: post #13

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Switch to Android. It will make a dent. Bitcoin people are not a random demographic, they are early adopters, many are entrepreneurs, most are young.

I don't think Apple cares all that much about losing early adopters at this stage, and the number of folks willing to switch platform over Bitcoin wallet apps isn't going to be the slightest bit noticeable.

I'm no friend of Bitcoin, but won't disregarding early adopters lead them one step closer to becoming Microsoft?

Re: Blockchain’s Response to Apple

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Post by maaku » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 3:58 PM UTC

tzs wrote: post #54

maaku wrote: post #12

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There are also no controls to minimise the risk that in-app purchases are being used for money laundering.

I thought that for money laundering to work you had to purchases with the dirty money items that can be sold for clean money, or exchanged for items that can be sold for clean money (and you also want the transactions on one or preferably both ends to be hard to trace). What are some examples of in-app purchases that would be good for this kind of thing?

Transferable game items, for example.

Re: Blockchain’s Response to Apple

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Post by robzyb » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 10:38 PM UTC

ye wrote: post #15

robzyb wrote: post #5

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No they wouldn't. Profiting from Bitcoin transfers is a regulatory nightmare. This is because there are no controls to minimise the risk that Bitcoin is being used for money laundering.

The dumb money laundering argument. If you seriously think regulators care about money laundering, ask yourself why HSBC laundered hundreds of billions of drug cartel dollars, got a slap on the wrist and nobody went to jail. Money laundering is the new "think of the children" or "terrorists!" bullshit.

> If you seriously think regulators care about money laundering

I think that WE should care about money laundering.

I think that WE should care about the HSBC situation.

And consequently I think that everyone should care about the potential for Bitcoin to be used for money laundering.

Re: Blockchain’s Response to Apple

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Post by gcb0 » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 9:37 AM UTC

myko wrote: post #60

gcb0 wrote: post #14

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Return your device. Say you bought for this and now it is useless. And maybe sue for punitive damages. And then move to palm, windows, webos.. because moving to android will just make you do the same thing to google in a couple months.

With Android you don't need to rely on Google to install third party applications on your own hardware.

technically. but then, neither with ios. but its not whats being discussed.

Re: Blockchain’s Response to Apple

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Post by gcb0 » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 9:39 AM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #29

gcb0 wrote: post #14

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Return your device. Say you bought for this and now it is useless. And maybe sue for punitive damages. And then move to palm, windows, webos.. because moving to android will just make you do the same thing to google in a couple months.

Palm's gone, I'm not sure why you'd think Microsoft would be any different than Google/Apple regarding Bitcoin, and webOS was Palm's OS.

ironically, microsoft is less toxic nowadays than osx for software freedom.