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Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by mschuster91 on Sunday June 25, 2017 @09:00PM (#14633197)
Money laundering, in my opinion, is not only legitimate, but neccessary, given that e.g. European banking transactions end up via SWIFT or implants at the NSA headwuarters.

In addition many governments try to move citizens to "electronic payment" (ranging from online banking to NFC credit cards). The reason is once again tracking, and as could be seen during the financial crisis it's easy to just confiscate money when it's just numbers in a mainframe vs actual piles of cash in my home safe.

Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by daveguy on Sunday June 25, 2017 @09:38PM (#14633414)
Blockchain currency definitely isn't the solution if the problem is tracking or avoiding confiscation. 1) the blockchain is a permanent immutable log. Once you do tie and identity to an address every transaction ever is immediately available. 2) the key that is the currency resides as just numbers in a computer. Maybe you have yours on a hardware wallet in a fireproof safe. Most don't. Especially those launderers who are shuffling coin around.
Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by kaffeemitsahne on Monday June 26, 2017 @06:22AM (#14635589)
There are other cryptocurrencies that (try to) solve problem 1), e.g. Monero.
Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by peculiar on Monday June 26, 2017 @07:05AM (#14635790)
There is a GNU project [1] that's basically an electronic cash. It has no restrictions on what you use as currency (fiat, gold, bitcoin). But the government cannot track what you buy. At the same time merchants can be taxed, so there should be no issues from the legislation standpoint.

[1]: https://taler.net/en/

Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by the_cat_kittles on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:09PM (#14633537)
do you think all attempts to stop money laundering are bad? isn't it reasonable to try to prevent people from profiting off stuff that we all agree is bad? trying to figure out if you are saying there are downsides, or that its all bad.
Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by ruytlm on Sunday June 25, 2017 @09:25PM (#14633331)
On the flip side, your piles of cash are only valuable at the moment. Print enough new money, and your cash is worthless, at which point its value has been taken from you without any interaction with you.