Re:10 years of whatever this has been
by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday November 18, 2021 @07:58AM
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> Easy: it's censorship-resistant. You send a transaction and no middleman, no financial organization, no one can prevent you from sending it.
Devil's advocate here: How is a state not going to see that as a bug not a feature? Do you think that governments will let the loophole stand and grow? Won't there inevitably be a choice eventually: get regulation and oversight like any other mass payment method, or be banned outright, and driven to the margins of society?
Devil's advocate here: How is a state not going to see that as a bug not a feature? Do you think that governments will let the loophole stand and grow? Won't there inevitably be a choice eventually: get regulation and oversight like any other mass payment method, or be banned outright, and driven to the margins of society?