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So is cocaine, and cocaine is big business. The government cannot make bitcoin worthless through legislation. The government can make bitcoin worthless through

So is cocaine, and cocaine is big business. The government cannot make bitcoin worthless through legislation. The government can make bitcoin worthless through an attack that costs less than 1% of the DoD budget though.

boc 6y ago
Cocaine is a highly inelastic good. Bitcoin is highly elastic. It's trivial to ban goods with elastic demand.
- logicchains 6y ago
  > Cocaine is a highly inelastic good. Bitcoin is highly elastic. It's trivial to ban goods with elastic demand. What do people use Bitcoin for? Buying drugs online! If the demand for drugs is inelastic, then presumably the demand for a way to buy them online is somewhat inelastic too?
  - vincnetas 6y ago
    I would think that BTC is not used only for buying drugs. If my numbers are correct daily BTC transaction volume is 290K or 15B€ or 750 tones of cocaine at 20€/g. Thats a lot of cocaine. In 2018 its estimayed that worldwide 1.7k tones were produced totally.
    - lodovic 6y ago
      This assumes that the end users buy their cocaine straight from the big drug kingpin. These drugs are paid for many times.
      - veb 6y ago
        That and there's more than cocaine out there on the darkweb.