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One thing I always respected about Tim May is how relentlessly unapologetic he was when it came to the darker side of cypherpunk technology. Bitcoin, too, will be used by very bad people to do very bad things. Freedom has its price. (Referenced post:

"Stopping Crime" Necessarily Means Invasiveness

— but there are many like it.)

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npub1zdhg...sned 3 months ago

Aaron je bent een over het paard getild kruger-dunning mannetje. Tijdens covid kon iedereen zien hoe'n bang onnozel mannetje je eigenlijk bent. Wel bang voor de griep maar niet bang voor kinderporno op jouw hardware. In de woorden van Boris vd Ven: wat een ongelovelijke sukkel ben je dan!

npub18y33...x5t7 3 months ago

"Privacy has its price. The ability of people to plot crimes and commit crimes behind closed doors is obvious, and yet we don't demand secret cameras in homes, apartments, and hotel rooms!"

npub1zdhg...sned 3 months ago

↩ replying to npub18y33...x5t7

What u say has zero comparison value to holding CSAM on your device retard

npub1v6qj...nzyr 3 months ago

It should be used by very bad people to do very bad **payments**

DZC 3 months ago

↩ replying to npub1v6qj...nzyr

Agree that bitcoin purpose is to make payments. But we can not force every transaction to be a payment, as transactions can be used to different use cases.

npub1mxvv...pydg 3 months ago

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GLACA 3 months ago

That's Genesis Book. Important one to understand Bitcoin and censorship resistant cryptography related tech.

npub1mxvv...pydg 3 months ago

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GLACA 3 months ago

I have to leave another comment since I now realized that you Sir are the author. Sorry I was tired after workout :) Huge respect and thank you. Massive body of work. The history of cypherpunk movement is absolutely fascinating! Are you working on any new things?

Pixel Survivor 3 months ago

pixels are cheap. but freedom isn’t. (btw, you can zap me on nostr, or use lightning to paint.)

Bitcoin Calendar 3 months ago

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npub1ldh3...4kam 3 months ago

Important to be clear though, Bitcoin will be used as money? Or Bitcoin will be used as a permentant record of videos and pictures detailing human atrocities?

npub1art8...m0w5 3 months ago

↩ replying to npub1ldh3...4kam

Bitcoin is a an electronic cash system. But I don't think you can really stop people from using it for other niche usecases, anymore than you can stop them from scribbling notes on physical dollar bills. Nor do I think that's a big deal. As adoption grown the bulk of it will probably be outpriced anyways.

npub1ldh3...4kam 3 months ago

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What if instead of scribbling li'l notes it was storing CSAM and other horrors for eternity? No biggy?

npub1art8...m0w5 3 months ago

↩ replying to npub1ldh3...4kam

That’s already the case. See eg.:

the Guardian

Child abuse imagery found within bitcoin

Researchers discover illegal content within the distributed ledger, making possession of it potentially unlawful in many countries

But I don’t think the Bitcoin blockchain is very well suited for this, so I don’t expect it to be widely used for this purpose. Not now, not when Bitcoin Core 30 is released, and certainly not if and when blocks fill up and fee pressure increases.

npub1ldh3...4kam 3 months ago

↩ replying to npub1art8...m0w5

Your lack of concern for this is alarming.

quixote 2 months ago

already plenty of bad bitcoin actors out there. evil always co-opts useful innovations. this is why decentralization is so important in the tech space.

npub19h6z...y9kh 2 months ago

Real freedom always comes with a cost but that’s what makes it real