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The quality of this comment is not what I'd like to see on this forum. Firstly, do you really have to participate in this derogatory, sarcastic tone? Secondly,

by dmos62 6y ago

The quality of this comment is not what I'd like to see on this forum. Firstly, do you really have to participate in this derogatory, sarcastic tone? Secondly, transactions per second are cryptocurrency-specific, so your point (about BTC, I presume) is irrelevant. Thirdly, majority of cryptocurrencies belonging to unkowns is fine, what's your point? Lastly, some of those unknowns are criminals: again, what's your point? Please, put some thought into your comments.

cableshaft 6y ago
> Lastly, some of those unknowns are criminals: again, what's your point? I think their point is criminals are bad, so anything they use is also bad. Like guns, and drugs, and cars, and food, and beds, and houses, and air. All bad. We shouldn't use those things, and we should ban them at the earliest opportunity.
- fvv 6y ago
  There are things very useful for criminals and not so much for common people , air doesn't belong go this category, ak-47 and bitcoin yes, are both vastly more useful to criminals that common people, in countries where governments is not oppressive amd against the people (in those countries good and bad behavior may be more or less inverted depending on situation)
  - dmos62 6y ago
    You're arguing against privacy. It's weird to have to rehash this debate, ever since tracking and data collection has become a widely recognized problem. Would you like to see Tor shut down as well? Same argument could be made for "unlicensed" encryption. Which feature of cryptocurrencies would you say is useful to criminals, but not to not-criminals? I'd argue that there's no such feature.
xtracto 6y ago
Imagine when he learns the currency that the majority of criminals use ... I agree with you. Comments like that have such a low intellectual effort that they are mainly noise. People in stable countries (us, uk, western Europe) don't understand the lack of confidence that citizens of underdeveloped countries have in their own government and financial institutions.
dandanua 6y ago
Money is power. The more relative power criminals will have over honest people – the more awful this world will be. The world should give power to public creators instead, not to hidden speculators, drug dealers, etc. The argument that criminals also use ordinary money doesn't work here. Crypto was adopted by them at first, e.g. look at Silk Road, or billion volume hacks of exchanges. If BTC will grow then their relative power will grow.
- thebean11 6y ago
  > The more relative power criminals will have over honest people And you could use this exact argument against the Turkish government banning crypto to protect its own exploitative currency scheme..

by dmos62 6y ago

cableshaft 6y ago

> Lastly, some of those unknowns are criminals: again, what's your point? I think their point is criminals are bad, so anything they use is also bad. Like guns, and drugs, and cars, and food, and beds, and houses, and air. All bad. We shouldn't use those things, and we should ban them at the earliest opportunity.

fvv 6y ago
There are things very useful for criminals and not so much for common people , air doesn't belong go this category, ak-47 and bitcoin yes, are both vastly more useful to criminals that common people, in countries where governments is not oppressive amd against the people (in those countries good and bad behavior may be more or less inverted depending on situation)
- dmos62 6y ago
  You're arguing against privacy. It's weird to have to rehash this debate, ever since tracking and data collection has become a widely recognized problem. Would you like to see Tor shut down as well? Same argument could be made for "unlicensed" encryption. Which feature of cryptocurrencies would you say is useful to criminals, but not to not-criminals? I'd argue that there's no such feature.

xtracto 6y ago

Imagine when he learns the currency that the majority of criminals use ... I agree with you. Comments like that have such a low intellectual effort that they are mainly noise. People in stable countries (us, uk, western Europe) don't understand the lack of confidence that citizens of underdeveloped countries have in their own government and financial institutions.

dandanua 6y ago

Money is power. The more relative power criminals will have over honest people – the more awful this world will be. The world should give power to public creators instead, not to hidden speculators, drug dealers, etc. The argument that criminals also use ordinary money doesn't work here. Crypto was adopted by them at first, e.g. look at Silk Road, or billion volume hacks of exchanges. If BTC will grow then their relative power will grow.

thebean11 6y ago
> The more relative power criminals will have over honest people And you could use this exact argument against the Turkish government banning crypto to protect its own exploitative currency scheme..