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Re:Bitcoin is a Ponzi by DeathArrow on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:02AM (#28782703)
Everybody should be allowed to transact. While transactions can be results of crimes, transactions are not crimes themselves.

Governments should stop crimes that may lead to transactions, not transactions.

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Re:Bitcoin is a Ponzi by ulrikrasmussen on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:02AM (#28783868)
I don't think that's true. Isn't a transfer of money to a terrorist organization an act of crime, for example?
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Re:Bitcoin is a Ponzi by kasey_junk on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:26AM (#28784037)
What the parent is suggesting isn’t that there aren’t criminal transactions but that there shouldn’t be.

The analogy would be free speech. It shouldn’t be illegal to write an article in support of terrorists even though becoming one might be.

It’s not a right we currently recognize but it’s a cogent argument.

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