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Look up the definition of anarchocapitalism, please, and you'll see it doesn't match the definition of what we are dealing with. Distributed internet also evade
by x220 8y ago
Look up the definition of anarchocapitalism, please, and you'll see it doesn't match the definition of what we are dealing with. Distributed internet also evades the ability of most single nations to censor or regulate it. Does that also make the internet anarchocapitalism? Every technology is used illegally sometimes. That's not an argument in itself.
- nosuchthing 8y agoThe exact terminology is beside the point. Cryptocurrency software is a large scale enabler for ransom, kidnapping, and money laundering, bribery, etc. There's a reason ransomware was not feasible with cash at the scale it's happening today.
- x220 8y ago>Cryptocurrency software is a large scale enabler for ransom, kidnapping, and money laundering, bribery, etc All of those were done before cryptocurrency even existed. It's not enabling those things if those things are clearly possible without cryptocurrency.
- nosuchthing 8y agoThe difference is the ease and magnitude. Where there even cases of demanding payments for ransomware before Bitcoin? Ransomware and international money laundering are easier with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monereo. It's arguably their only real world use case due to the high overhead cost, risk, and instability of transacting though those systems versus "traditional" fiat based transfer systems.