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If you need proof that cryptocurrencies are evil, here's Tim May, one of the idiological grand-pappies of bitcoin writing about one possible use for cryptocurre
by blindgeek 6y ago
If you need proof that cryptocurrencies are evil, here's Tim May, one
of the idiological grand-pappies of bitcoin writing about one possible use for cryptocurrency in the Cyphernomicon:
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16.10.4. Will I be sad if anonymous methods allow untraceable markets for
assassinations? It depends. In many cases,
people deserve death--those who have escaped justice,
those who have broken solemn commitments, etc.
Gun grabbing politicians, for example should be killed out of hand.
Anonymous rodent removal services will be a tool of liberty.
The BATF agents who murdered Randy Weaver's wife and son should be shot.
If the courts won't do it, a market for hits will do it.
- (Imagine for a moment an "anonymous fund"
to collect the money for such a hit. Interesting possibilities.)
- "Crypto Star Chambers," or what might be called "digilantes,"
may be formed on-line, and untraceably,
to mete out justice to those let off on technicalities.
Not altogether a bad thing.
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If I believed in hell, I'd wish that Tim May was rotting in it.
- arcanon 6y agoIf crypto increases energy demand and new energy capex that is most efficient is as green energy, then you are all wrong and crypto is good for the environment. Not to mention that it directly couples energy and monetary value