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A comment on Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard. Parent comment

Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by analog31 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @08:33PM (#30228361)
This is something I would worry about. If a particular piece of bitcoin becomes tainted because it's associated with dirty money (or whatever), and I receive it as a payment, will it become harder to spend or of less value? What if it goes onto some sort of blacklist?

To use the recent parlance, can my money be "cancelled" by popular opinion?

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Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by Ekaros on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:05PM (#30228549)
Yes, and this popular opinion is one of the exchanges and online wallets. Not necessarily the miners or nodes running the network.
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Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by labster on Saturday February 05, 2022 @08:41PM (#30228420)
Yes, popular opinion can cancel you via forking the blockchain or software.
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Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by chii on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:03AM (#30229634)
which kind of goes against the very philosophy of bitcoins in the first place, where there should not be centralized control of the currency. A blacklist of coins is a defacto centralized control.
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Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by analog31 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:04AM (#30229914)
On the other hand, the lack of centralized control means that each person can have their own philosophy of bitcoins. Literally every individual can have their own belief about what bitcoins are useful for. The only limitation is whether a particular philosophy makes sense in light of how bitcoins work and behave at any given moment.
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