Re:Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin
by belorn on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:22AM
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Lets list them by assuming that I want to buy a legal product or service:
* When it is cultural and social taboo.
* When the act can be pulled out of context.
* When it can become a false positive for correlation in police investigation.
* When it can be abused in order to influence and apply pressure, by example advertisers, politics or different sides in a court.
* When it can harm a third party, like a dependent.
* when it can give unfair market power to those who know more about you than competitor with better product or service.
All of those have some grey zones and illegal areas but for most it is up to the consumer to be aware. So long the legal system demand that the individual take responsibility for personal information, and the legal investigation system has false positives, and the court and political voting system depend on asymmetrical information, and influences like advertisement is legal, and we have cultural and social taboos for legal behavior, well then we have a legal and moral problem that a decentralized currency could help to solve.
* When it is cultural and social taboo.
* When the act can be pulled out of context.
* When it can become a false positive for correlation in police investigation.
* When it can be abused in order to influence and apply pressure, by example advertisers, politics or different sides in a court.
* When it can harm a third party, like a dependent.
* when it can give unfair market power to those who know more about you than competitor with better product or service.
All of those have some grey zones and illegal areas but for most it is up to the consumer to be aware. So long the legal system demand that the individual take responsibility for personal information, and the legal investigation system has false positives, and the court and political voting system depend on asymmetrical information, and influences like advertisement is legal, and we have cultural and social taboos for legal behavior, well then we have a legal and moral problem that a decentralized currency could help to solve.