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Re:Chainalysis in Action: Justice Dept Demands Forfeiture of... by X6S1x6Okd1st on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:02PM (#24307223)
vigilantes are people that go out and impose their version of justice on the world. Just because your vision of justice includes privacy & fungibility doesn't mean everyone's does.
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Re:Chainalysis in Action: Justice Dept Demands Forfeiture of... by hatenberg on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:36PM (#24307669)
Vigilantes spawn in place of formal enforcement of justice. Given that Bitcoin is designed with that void in mind it was inevitable.
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Re:Chainalysis in Action: Justice Dept Demands Forfeiture of... by X6S1x6Okd1st on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:11PM (#24308160)
Or where they feel like their vision of justice is not being enforced.
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