Re:Bitcoin study: Period of exclusivity encourages early ado...
by cableshaft on Friday July 14, 2017 @10:59AM
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So does physical fiat currency, and physical fiat currency is virtually untraceable, unlike bitcoin, which has a public ledger for every transaction (although it is pseudo-anonymous).
You want to ban that so drug dealers have to find a more creative way to make money? (And they'll find a way. I'm still surprised they managed to find a way to use Tide detergent as currency to sell drugs).
What point are you trying to make? Sounds an awful lot like the "Let's ban peer-to-peer filesharing, because it's used for copyright infringement" argument.
You want to ban that so drug dealers have to find a more creative way to make money? (And they'll find a way. I'm still surprised they managed to find a way to use Tide detergent as currency to sell drugs).
http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/
What point are you trying to make? Sounds an awful lot like the "Let's ban peer-to-peer filesharing, because it's used for copyright infringement" argument.