Re:How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
by hyperbovine on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:52PM
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It's a censorship resistant technology that also indelibly records, publicly, every transaction you ever participated in. Talk about a double-edged sword...
Agree, it's an interesting trade-off: Completely private if you can use an anonymous address but completely traceable if the address is identified. I wonder if Satoshi intended it that way or if he would have preferred the greater anonymity of Monero.
When I hear complaints that Bitcoin has no use except for speculation, I think of Sci-hub, Wikileaks and other organizations that may be bad for the interests of the US government but may be good for mankind.