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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by imesh on Monday July 09, 2018 @06:38PM (#17493981)
Ignoring tax evasion and other white collar crimes, selling drugs alone is a $36 trillion dollar a year industry.
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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by gehwartzen on Monday July 09, 2018 @10:33PM (#17495000)
I think maybe you mean billion. The Gross World Product is around 78T USD.
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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by api on Monday July 09, 2018 @06:53PM (#17494082)
We're probably entering an era when enforcement of these kinds of laws will be either impossible or will require draconian surveillance and extreme penalties. Anything short of "iron fist" enforcement will be skirted easily using cryptography, darknets, etc.
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