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Bitcoin is 'vulnerable' to this. The most common use is to put financial transactions on Bitcoin, but you can put whatever binary data you want. Famously the ge
by ThreeToZero 5y ago
Bitcoin is 'vulnerable' to this. The most common use is to put financial transactions on Bitcoin, but you can put whatever binary data you want. Famously the genesis block[1] includes a newspaper headline to prove it was created after a specific day.
It's possible to place illegal content onto the Bitcoin blockchain.
[1] - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block
- shrimpx 5y ago> It's possible to place illegal content onto the Bitcoin blockchain. I wonder if Bitcoin already has illegal content in it.
- lekevicius 5y agoYes, both Bitcoin and Ethereum have very illegal content. So far, nobody cared about this aspect.
- bspammer 5y agoSo anyone running a mining node could potentially be prosecuted for distributing illegal content? That definitely seems like it will be a massive issue in the future.