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Re:Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Stea... by bitwize on Monday July 21, 2025 @01:18PM (#44637731)
They can prosecute transactions with unregistered keys as money laundering. They may not have the resources to get everybody but they can collect a few scalps pour encourager les autres.
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Re:Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Stea... by lrvick on Monday July 21, 2025 @01:31PM (#44637925)
They tried making examples of a few people for piracy too and adoption only went up.

Stopping cryptocurrency is as hard as stopping end to end encrypted messaging or banning porn.

You either allow access to the open internet or you do not.

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Re:Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Stea... by freedomben on Monday July 21, 2025 @01:25PM (#44637833)
Yep, they can also prosecute merchants who accept payments that don't go through "approved" middlemen (banks, etc), or even ban/regulate crypto that allows users to make their own keys.

At one point the US gov was building their own crypto currency, and I'm sure it wasn't because they felt the existing options weren't private enough from oversight.

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