Posted on 03/22/2018 6:43:55 AM PDT by Drew68
Hmm... That worked out conveniently.
Almost as if fiat currency issuers were looking for a reason....
Does this mean those trading in this virtual commodity have kiddie porn on their hard drives. If so vey scary as this could ruin their lives
So the government could poison every cryptocurrency, and declare them all illegal!
A bug, or a feature?
So the government [any] can seize it at will............................
Funny how Mashable reports on this but NOT the Pizzagate or UK Muslim child sex traffickers.
One day we will be so connected that the Feds could sneak their child porn collection into our “smart” appliances as a way to take down anyone they choose.
Is anyone putting it past the FBI at this point?
This is typical FUD BS. Sell your coins sheeple! Make it cheap so we can buy it up. SMDH. What they really don’t want is blockchain verified voting tallies. Would wreck their election theft.
Downright hilarious.
A means of barter which stays under the radar of government scrutiny and allows a certain few who thought up the scheme to profit massively used for illegal endeavors? What a surprise!
It’s not easy carrying around a bitcoin these days. The blockchain weighs in at 150 gb. (as of December)
A link to something illegal is not the same as the illegal thing.
Find out if it contains anything illegal.
If true, it is illegal to download the blockchain. Yes. Knowing what it contains and downloading it anyway would be illegal.
Indeed. TPTB weren’t going to attack bitcoin head-on.
It's gotten to the point where I've become cynical of child porn arrests and find myself wondering, "Who did you piss off?"
I mean, when you think about it, there's really no better way to completely destroy someone than to brand them as a kiddie porn perv. There's no public redemption from that.
More info needed. The block chain that contains the illegal stuff? Certainly. But the actual product of the mining...the bitcoins? Probably not. Unless also tainted. More info needed.
Governments seize first, sort it out in court years later.................
This is all very disturbing, to say the least. In this context, I don't want to be any more connected than I already am, and would definitely not spend extra money for appliances etc. that would do so. My refrigerator keeps things cold. My oven heats things up. I don't need to control them from my 'smart phone', or have them communicate with the outside world.
We should all remember that anything we fear can be done or used to harm us, can happen. It's interesting that there are many who are concerned about the unequal distribution of wealth, and income inequality, but who fail to see the great threat posed by unequal distribution and concentration of power.
When governments, and in particular those people held unaccountable within governments hold most or all of the power, we are not free and are at great risk.
OK how does someone embed an image in the blockchain?
In a court where every employee is on the government payroll.
What could possibly be more fair and unbiased?
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