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An interesting comment validated here, from 7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1533033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1533033
by disillusioned 9y ago
An interesting comment validated here, from 7 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1533033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1533033
- quickthrower2 9y agoThat comment is very general though. Exchanging bitcoins for cash, gold, diamonds for example would be harder to trace.
- hellbanner 9y agoExchanging BTC for cash, gold or diamonds is much more difficult ( and there's a higher perceived danger ). How would you go about trading your BTC for diamonds? Btc-to-diamonds.website ? If it's online, it's tracked by 5 eyes Tor? 5-eyes is even more interested Craigslist? Great, go meet a stranger in a parking lot and gamble that you don't get robbed. The comment is general but it's right. As it & other posters in this thread have pointed out - existing power structures control the world. The internet does not exist in an imaginary "stateless" vacuum.
- quickthrower2 9y agoIf you are in the underworld you know people who you can do dealings with. Effectively a dark pool. Dark in both senses of the word.
- hellbanner 9y agoThe average BTC holder is not, so it's not a good option.
- flatfilefan 9y agoPeople are trying to resolve this problem in a similar way the bitcoin itself functions: https://github.com/bitsquare/bitsquare https://github.com/bitsquare/bitsquare