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Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by dylkil 4y ago|1 comments
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by dylkil 4y ago
Is there any estimate for what percentage of chat communication happening within the EU is done by "perpetrators/criminals"? The average crime rate is 40 incidences per 100000 people per year, which would mean 0.0004% of the
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by dylkil 4y ago
the classic tale of "privacy is only needed to do illegal things"
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by dylkil 4y ago
tornado cash doesnt facilitate money laundering, it just obfuscates the source of eth, like converting debit into cash, those funds still need to enter the real system in some "legitimate" manner in order to be considered launder
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by dylkil 4y ago
Exactly, everyone is missing this. If anything using tornado cash is analogous to converting debit into cash.
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by dylkil 4y ago
patterns will emerge eventually as you try to reconcile more and more of your scattered eth
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by dylkil 4y ago
They never included the official tornado cash contracts deployed on the arbitrum layer 2, so its still legal to use that one.
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by dylkil 4y ago
Ethereum accounts don't own tokens in the same way they own ETH. Token balances exist with smart contracts, so when someone sends you booby coin all they are doing is updating the storage in a smart contract that 0x123 owns 1bil booby
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by dylkil 4y ago
with chainanalysis this would never work, eventually you have to pool the coins somewhere or funnel them through an exit, both of which will be obvious with analysis software
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by dylkil 4y ago
what use outside of hiding something illegal does privacy have
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by dylkil 4y ago
lichess is by far the better platform too
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by dylkil 4y ago
> “I consider that horse bread is the period analogue for the pellets we use today.” very interesting
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by dylkil 4y ago
>I'll have to try TikTok I guess do because you will be very surprised at how good it is
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by dylkil 4y ago
thats why things like rocket pool exist
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by dylkil 4y ago
> If the goal was anonymity its a public ledger, the goal wasnt anonymity, it was autonomy
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by dylkil 4y ago
where are all the anti crypto and web3 comments?
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by dylkil 4y ago
dumb money is exiting at a loss. who do you think is buying on the other side? not the dumb money that bought 60k, its the smart money that sold it who is buying right now.
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by dylkil 4y ago
it will happen by september, testnets already merged and merging
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by dylkil 4y ago
people think this every crash and then get more cynical as price goes up in the next bubble
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by dylkil 4y ago
who cares, just enjoy it
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by dylkil 4y ago
anything anti crypto is an automatic upvote for most people here, regardless of content. emotions are high
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by dylkil 4y ago
>I hope this person leaks the 100GB files to crash the crypto market If a coin with a $40b mcap going to zero in a few hours doesnt crash the crypto market I highly doubt a telegram chat dump will
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by dylkil 4y ago
80 upvotes in <40 minutes for a text post with no substance? Doesnt seem organic.
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by dylkil 4y ago
>The crypto bubble is popping For the 4th time. See you in 4 years for the next crypto bubble.
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by dylkil 4y ago
you dont need a currency, its just another product of byzantine fault tolerant systems. Decentralisation has many products, currency is one of them.
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by dylkil 4y ago
how do these ignorant takes get upvoted on a tech board like this
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by dylkil 4y ago
I think everyone who upvoted this post didnt even read the article
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by dylkil 4y ago
it amazes me how this type of garbage gets upvoted on HN just because it signals "Blockchain Bad!!"
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by dylkil 5y ago
> Old, ugly cars that never seem well maintained maybe in US or UK but in europe taxis are kept to a high standard, albeit way more expensive
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by dylkil 5y ago
paypal down -65% since last september, it must be out of suckers to scam /s

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