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Re:Former FBI Director Said Blockchain Is Easier to Trace Th... by Spivak on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:58AM (#33233573)
> When the US justice department declared that credit card companies had to stop processing donations to wikileaks I could still donate through bitcoin.

If any appreciable amount of money was sent this way you would see blacklisting of bitcoin addresses where sending / receiving money from that address would get you in legal trouble. Bitcoin creates a situation where you cannot be physically prevented from sending the money but everyone including the gov’t will know you did it so it’s so it’s not censorship resistant to any gov’t that cares to get a wrench.

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Re:Former FBI Director Said Blockchain Is Easier to Trace Th... by superkuh on Monday October 17, 2022 @03:12PM (#33238196)
Right. It calls their bluff and makes them actually present a case in a court of law. There are no regulations or laws involved when the DOJ tells payment processors to blacklist journalists they don't like and the payment processors are happy to comply without it.
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