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Well, the long-term effect will be that you will only be able to get a decent plumber on an anonymous online platform, at which you will have to escrow a sizabl
by werkschuwtuig 10y ago
Well, the long-term effect will be that you will only be able to get a decent plumber on an anonymous online platform, at which you will have to escrow a sizable security deposit in bitcoin first. Making that kind of threats to any of the plumbers will just lead to the customer losing his security deposit. Online platforms are several orders of magnitude more efficient at enforcing anything than governments are. So, there you are.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThat's a weak argument why bitcoins and anonymous trade are a bad idea. (A stronger one will be raised after the first nuclear or bacteriological incident traced back to anonymous black-market purchases.) > Making that kind of threats to any of the plumbers Threats? Refusing to be complicit in a crime is a threat now? I hope society never goes that bonkers.
- zyx321 10y agoIt's interesting as a thought experiment, but it assumes that all decent plumbers would be conducting their business in a Chinese-owned Crytocurrency (Bitcoin), via a website registered in Libya (ly) and hosted by the Russian mafia, rather than just coming clean and paying their damn taxes. I have a creeping suspicion that you might be a sociopath. (edit: not meant as an insult. We tend to project our morals and biases onto other people, and the situation you're describing hinges on all plumbers and all clients being sociopaths interested only in their own benefit.)