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Hey, let's not be too hard on Bitcoin, it's turned out to be a great way to catch pedophiles! https://www.wired.com/story/tracers-in-the-dark-welcome-to-video-c
by civilized 5y ago
Hey, let's not be too hard on Bitcoin, it's turned out to be a great way to catch pedophiles! https://www.wired.com/story/tracers-in-the-dark-welcome-to-video-crypto-anonymity-myth/ https://www.wired.com/story/tracers-in-the-dark-welcome-to-v...
Also I love this:
> Across the hall, a woman with overlined lips and bleach blond hair was selling a concept called “CommuniSea,” in which members purchase shares in a luxury megayacht with on-board chefs and private trainers. Each “share” gave members a certain number of points, which translated to a certain number of nights on the yacht—all for the low starting price of $395,000 a year.
> “So it’s like a timeshare,” I said to the woman.
> “No, no, no,” she assured me. “It’s like an NFT.”
- nukemaster 5y agoUnlike a lot of people here I'm very pro crypto^ but at that rate you could get a very nice boat and just pay someone to maintain it for you. Most of the nicer deckboats cost a third-half of that new. ^(people gripe about a deflationary currency but we're all experiencing the pain of an inflationary one, and the ease with which crypto is converted lets people try out different ideas quickly, IMO it's still underrated.)