Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets

Re:Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Tr... by crypt1d on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @02:05PM (#16538877)

I see you are trying to be clever, but that comment doesn't really bring anything to the table. Sure, you can try to filter/block crypto transactions but that will be A LOT harder than blocking dissident blogs. One of the biggest selling points of many decentralized systems is to be censorship resistant.

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Re:Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Tr... by scblock on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @02:19PM (#16538990)

I am not even remotely trying to be clever.

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Re:Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Tr... by IncRnd on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @03:00PM (#16539312)

Blocking these transactions is trivial to do. Employers detect and block them constantly.

The purported censorship resistance of these coins has nothing to do with the shape of the traffic.

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Re:Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Tr... by crypt1d on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @06:02PM (#16540808)

thats only true in theory really, because there are many ways to go around the same blocks. eg , by simply storing ur wallet node remotely. nobody said that there is something special about the traffic, just that the system is set up in a way that does makes it impossible for governments to effectively stop you from enjoying ur rights to freely transact.

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Re:Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Tr... by IncRnd on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @06:49PM (#16541068)

All you have done is restate what you wrote.

There is empirical evidence that this traffic can and does get blocked. Furthermore, many cloud providers stop this traffic.

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