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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by ThreeToZero on Saturday January 08, 2022 @02:39AM (#29849546)
Bitcoin is 'vulnerable' to this. The most common use is to put financial transactions on Bitcoin, but you can put whatever binary data you want. Famously the genesis block[1] includes a newspaper headline to prove it was created after a specific day.

It's possible to place illegal content onto the Bitcoin blockchain.

[1] - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by shrimpx on Saturday January 08, 2022 @04:01AM (#29849932)
> It's possible to place illegal content onto the Bitcoin blockchain.

I wonder if Bitcoin already has illegal content in it.

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by lekevicius on Saturday January 08, 2022 @04:20AM (#29850011)
Yes, both Bitcoin and Ethereum have very illegal content. So far, nobody cared about this aspect.
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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by bspammer on Saturday January 08, 2022 @05:18AM (#29850255)
So anyone running a mining node could potentially be prosecuted for distributing illegal content? That definitely seems like it will be a massive issue in the future.
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