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I see no problem with this. Crime doesn't stop being crime just because its happening to virtual assets. Maybe some crypto folks want to disconnect from the res

I see no problem with this. Crime doesn't stop being crime just because its happening to virtual assets. Maybe some crypto folks want to disconnect from the rest of society, but I don't think that's very many of them.

FireBeyond 2y ago
Many folks said the Silk Road had made drug dealing "harmless". What they really meant was "harmless to me". Because it does nothing for anyone else in the chain to make it safer. There's also a non-zero sum of crypto proponents that think a large swathe of things that are illegal "IRL", should be non-criminal because ... "online".
- jenadine 2y ago
  There are people who think some things that are illegal shouldn't be illegal. (Online or IRL doesn't matter)
Suppafly 2y ago
>Crime doesn't stop being crime just because its happening to virtual assets. Sure, but there is a reason that real banks have tons of laws and regulations. It's more or less not a crime to steal crypto because it's not a thing that's protected by law. And crypto bros are doing everything they can to keep it from being protected by law while whining that the law isn't able to help them.
- 15155 2y ago
  > because it's not a thing that's protected by law Unequivocally false in the United States. Despite what computer professionals may sometimes think, judicial opinions and most of our legal system are based on what a "reasonable person" would believe. Judges don't agree with the "Neener neener neener! The terms are exactly X!" methodology, typically. A reasonable, everyday person (and therefore a judge) would consider a party being deprived their valuable assets as theft, absent some form of agreement. Invariably, the reply incoming is "codeislaw," but that's absolutely not the case in every circumstance.