Because some people are corrupt, you feel no law should apply to you or anyone?
Or... really, I can't come up with any sensible interpretation of what you wrote other than that.
> oh so you think you're above the law now?
The ledger as a permanent history available to the world, in real time, of every single transaction.
arguably a selling point. just not for selling large quantities of online drugs.
> The Ex Post Facto Clause, contained in Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 of the Constitution, provides: “No . . . ex post facto Law shall be passed.” The phrase “ex post facto,” Latin for “after the fact,” refers to laws that apply retroactively. While the Ex Post Facto Clause on its face might appear to bar all retroactive legislation, courts have applied the Clause only to penal laws.
> Congress has much greater leeway to enact retroactive legislation in the civil sphere than in the criminal sphere. However, certain constitutional limits apply, and courts interpreting ambiguous statutes apply a general presumption against retroactivity.
Paper money was never designed to be tracked, and IMO that's a good thing.
You're saying you'd like to see better tracking of paper money?
Even when they are deposited at a bank the banks don’t tend to keep those records forever, they have lists of serial numbers that they need to watch for but if you deposit cash into your account the bank would hold the bill information for a relatively short period of time and they don’t actively share that information with LEOs or other agencies unless explicitly requested to do so.
Even with robberies it sometimes takes years or even decades before enough bills surface to actually trigger an alert and many of them never do.
Not to mention that there are billions in counterfeit dollars in circulation at any point in time and many of them are rarely caught because they never reach a point where a good enough forgery would be discovered.
People consistently don't listen.
Crypto pumpers on the other hand tend to not care and say whatever BS they want to pump their bags.
Such advocates are the fringe. Most bitcoin advocates are saying "If you're not buying bitcoin you're an idiot! It's easy money! My critics are no-coiners who didn't listen to me!"
They're not the fringe, they're the core that the fringe pump monkeys looking for a quick buck latch onto and promptly ignore.
The majority of people who talk about literally anything aren't worth listening to, and if you can't differentiate between the two, we have bigger problems to work through.
These are fringe. The cynical and predatory advocates are the ones who are actually heard by the naive marks.
It is a shame that your only exposure to the space comes from pump monkeys who don't understand that a blockchain is barely more than a distributed linked list (hell, it's basically just glorified git) and the real innovation was not the data structure, but the integration of proof of work to create Byzantine fault tolerance.
I'm pretty sure the only difference between a Merkle tree and an Oak is the theoretically infinite branching. Is that right? /s
Me? I think the tech is intellectually interesting, but doesn't really scale to the point where it can provide a "world economy". If nothing else, with Proof-of-Work, you need 51% of ALL available computing resources dedicated to maintaining the chain, which is an incredible waste (if you don't have a majority of all available computing power, the chain is vulnerable). With Proof-of-Stake, you need a majority of the economic system dedicated to just maintaining the economic system.
So, intellectually interesting, but practically useless.
It's pretty much focused on heavily tech-savvy people.
Basic strategy: buy and hold unopened copies of the 'flagship' sets of each Lego theme. If a theme is small enough, get complete sets of sets. For instance, the Muppets minifigs were sold in blind bags, but every case was guaranteed to hold three complete sets, so buy a whole case, not random bags. The Speed Champions line, after the switch to 8-stud wide models, had a dozen or so sets over two years (so far).
At your time horizon, decide whether you want to sell as parts or sets.
In 2000, the UCS X-wing (7191-1) was about $150 new. There appears to be one incomplete set on the open market for $831. The parts are worth about twice that if sold individually. I suspect an unopened set would go for about $2000, implying a return rate of about 12.5% APY.
Pattern matching has been successfully applied to phone logs between seemingly randomized src and dst phones. I'm busy at work and terrible at communicating clearly but what I am trying to say is that even when person A is using multiple phones and person B is also using multiple phones, there is still enough of a pattern involved such as call lengths, time of calls, etc to be able to sniff out and match these seemingly random devices to specific users.
I would have to dig up papers/reports on times this has been successfully done and reported publically.
But my point is that even running shit through coin mixers etc there is a high probability of there /still/ being enough latent information floating around to suss out a track between src and dst of blockchain transactions.
The Hezbollah Connection https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-hezbollah-co...
https://archive.ph/4uWfM#selection-1937.0-1937.13
Section 5+
> they could see that a given assassin had an “operational phone in his front pants pocket” and “in the back pocket a phone that he used to call his girlfriends.”
Wait, you mean something that literally tracks any and all actions in a literal chain of history that is immutable is easy to track?!?
You mean that pattern recognition can be applied to even “randomized” in both size, time, and destination of transactions can be done to track like how they can track burner phones?
I’m shocked! Shocked I say!