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> You can steal money and passwords Censorship resistance somehow helps you steal money and passwords via TCP? How? (Regardless, I am not buying this whole "s
by dependenttypes 6y ago
> You can steal money and passwords
Censorship resistance somehow helps you steal money and passwords via TCP? How?
(Regardless, I am not buying this whole "stealing numbers" thing)
> And you can steal things in the physical world and sell them over the internet.
Sure, how is censorship resistance relevant to this?
> The entire Bitcoin economy gives a massive counterexample of this.
Do you know of a lot of people who put advertisements of their companies on the blockchain?
Regardless (and I am going on an off-topic tangent here), anyone dealing in bitcoin should be aware of the fraud issue. You are not going around asking people to ban stoves because you decided that it would be a good idea to put your hand on one despite being aware of the potential complications.
> Censorship-resistant digital currencies like Bitcoin are massively used for ransomware and other forms blackmail.
Censorship resistance has again nothing to do with this. There is nothing stopping someone from including some form of "chargeback" command in a censorship-resistant cryptocurrency. I can't say for sure why this has not been done but I presume that most cryptocurrency users would not like to give the ability to a centralised institution to take their money away from them (I know for sure that the freelancers that use paypal are not too happy with this).
In addition there are a lot of real life services that do not offer the ability to chargeback yet they do not offer censorship resistance - western union for example.
> You are not so stupid that you would think anyone was ever making that argument
Rather than insulting people because you think that they misunderstood your post why not try to elaborate instead?