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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by worble on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:21PM (#48680474)
What's to stop you, using your 18+ ID from buying crates of alcohol and giving it to random < 18 year olds for the lulz?
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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by Aurornis on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:43PM (#48680643)
Because those <18 year olds will immediately flip and identify you to the cops to try to lighten their punishment.

The anonymous crypto token scheme does not have any trace-back mechanism like this at all. If there's no way to track those tokens back to you, why not sell them for $1 each on the internet to make some extra money?

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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by gruez on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:23PM (#48680495)
For one, I have to do it in meatspace so it's easily traced back to me, whereas anonymous tokens can't be traced back to me by design.
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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by laughing_man on Thursday June 25, 2026 @11:07PM (#48681922)
The minute this scheme went into place, there would be sites based in one of the "stans" selling tokens for a couple bucks to whomever wanted to buy.
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