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It's an attack I've contemplated. If you started sending a whole bunch of plain text Tiananmen Square remembrance stuff you'd very quickly have China cracking d

It's an attack I've contemplated. If you started sending a whole bunch of plain text Tiananmen Square remembrance stuff you'd very quickly have China cracking down on whatever it was.

david_allison 5y ago
An image of tank man is already embedded in the blockchain.[0] CSAM links are there too.[1] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/rbxupy/tankman_image_on_bitcoin_blockchain/hnt2yje https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/rbxupy/tankman_ima... [1] > Bitcoin’s blockchain contains at least eight files with sexual content. While five files only show, describe, or link to mildly pornographic content, we consider the remaining three instances objectionable for almost all jurisdictions: Two of them are backups of link lists to child pornography, containing 274 links to websites, 142 of which refer to Tor hidden services. The remaining instance is an image depicting mild nudity of a young woman. In an online forum this image is claimed to show child pornography, albeit this claim cannot be verified (due to ethical concerns we refrain from providing a citation). Notably, two of the explicit images were only detected by our suspicious transaction detector, i.e., they were not inserted via known services. https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf [SFW]
- kragen 5y ago
  Maybe this explains PRC's new hard-line anti-Bitcoin stance (over the last year).
  - TremendousJudge 5y ago
    Yeah, that's definitely it. I can't think of any other reason.
    - kragen 5y ago
      I can think of a couple.
tshaddox 5y ago
I doubt that, because there’s no easy way to browse or view content on the blockchain. Someone could make a website to view blockchain data in a human-readable way, but that’s…just a normal website that can be taken down or censored as easily as any other. And of course, there are undoubtedly much, much easier ways for someone living in China to find information about the Tiananmen Square protests.
PicassoCTs 5y ago
I regularly do that to dissuade mainlaind "fatten the pig" scammers.. That or "pretend" communicating as a CIA spook, pushing weapons into china, contacting his contact. Hope they invite those crooks to drink tea..
miohtama 5y ago
It has been already done on Binance Smart Chain that is not very centralised (Chinese devs are essentially in control): https://thedefiant.io/tiananmen-contract-on-bsc-seeking-to-provoke-cz/ https://thedefiant.io/tiananmen-contract-on-bsc-seeking-to-p...

It's an attack I've contemplated. If you started sending a whole bunch of plain text Tiananmen Square remembrance stuff you'd very quickly have China cracking down on whatever it was.

david_allison 5y ago

An image of tank man is already embedded in the blockchain.[0] CSAM links are there too.[1] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/rbxupy/tankman_image_on_bitcoin_blockchain/hnt2yje https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/rbxupy/tankman_ima... [1] > Bitcoin’s blockchain contains at least eight files with sexual content. While five files only show, describe, or link to mildly pornographic content, we consider the remaining three instances objectionable for almost all jurisdictions: Two of them are backups of link lists to child pornography, containing 274 links to websites, 142 of which refer to Tor hidden services. The remaining instance is an image depicting mild nudity of a young woman. In an online forum this image is claimed to show child pornography, albeit this claim cannot be verified (due to ethical concerns we refrain from providing a citation). Notably, two of the explicit images were only detected by our suspicious transaction detector, i.e., they were not inserted via known services. https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf [SFW]

kragen 5y ago
Maybe this explains PRC's new hard-line anti-Bitcoin stance (over the last year).
- TremendousJudge 5y ago
  Yeah, that's definitely it. I can't think of any other reason.
  - kragen 5y ago
    I can think of a couple.

tshaddox 5y ago

I doubt that, because there’s no easy way to browse or view content on the blockchain. Someone could make a website to view blockchain data in a human-readable way, but that’s…just a normal website that can be taken down or censored as easily as any other. And of course, there are undoubtedly much, much easier ways for someone living in China to find information about the Tiananmen Square protests.

PicassoCTs 5y ago

I regularly do that to dissuade mainlaind "fatten the pig" scammers.. That or "pretend" communicating as a CIA spook, pushing weapons into china, contacting his contact. Hope they invite those crooks to drink tea..

miohtama 5y ago

It has been already done on Binance Smart Chain that is not very centralised (Chinese devs are essentially in control): https://thedefiant.io/tiananmen-contract-on-bsc-seeking-to-provoke-cz/ https://thedefiant.io/tiananmen-contract-on-bsc-seeking-to-p...