BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions of mining bitcoin

Re:BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions o... by A_COMPUTER on Sunday February 15, 2015 @01:44PM (#9053539)

>That's something which is actually handled fine in fiat, believe it or not.

Not if you're Wikileaks. Bitcoin was (probably) built to solve the kind of problems they had getting money transferred to them. there's a cost associated with a low-trust network.

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Re:BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions o... by ufo on Sunday February 15, 2015 @04:55PM (#9054304)

Since bitcoin has a public ledger, its possible to envision a system where the authorities punish anyone that sends bitcoin to addresses controlled by wikileaks or accepts bitcoins from them.

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Re:BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions o... by thanksgiving on Monday February 16, 2015 @11:08AM (#9057491)

Can the authorities force me to confirm or deny my control of any given bitcoin wallet though?

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Re:BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions o... by ufo on Monday February 16, 2015 @10:55PM (#9060586)

They can use "rubber hose" crypto to interfere with your bitcoin usage. The point is that the lack of anonymity is a bad thing when you are facing against a powerful adversary.

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