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Re:In praise of cash by wyldfire on Friday March 03, 2017 @12:38PM (#13784506)
I think it's great to think about weaknesses and corner cases, but you're being too generous/imaginative here.

A pithier version would be: it's infeasible to censor transactions and if a nation state spent enough to try it, it would indeed be noticed and the community would fork.

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Re:In praise of cash by stinkytaco on Friday March 03, 2017 @02:04PM (#13785272)
I agree, but the more forks, the less value that currency has. And if a nation state actor did block, it would shake confidence in the currency and be at least temporarily disastrous.
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