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Re:How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Expo... by robot_no_419 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @08:40AM (#27245941)
You call it a "threat", but that's literally the whole point of Bitcoin. It cannot be censored that easily. It's a feature, not a bug.
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Re:How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Expo... by ajb on Saturday May 22, 2021 @09:22AM (#27246251)
Even if laundering is the whole point of bitcoin - a view I'm sympathetic to - it needs to be at least semi-legitimate for laundering to work. If market forces mean that the fraction of miners who are launderers increases over time, then eventually governments will consider it all tainted and it will no longer be useful for laundering.
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