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ShinyLeftPad • today at 4:58 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Like cash except you can use it at crazy scale, so worse than cash when crime is considered.


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thereforegrin • today at 5:30 AM

That's why it's paramount for LEOs to go after people doing the bad deeds instead of simply banning a whole monetary ecosystem, just because it's easier to do.

If you ban a coin, instead of persuing the actual criminal, then you're both doing a disservice to honest users of the coin and leaving the bad actor to do harm to society in some other way.

There are only 8B people in the world - they all fit into a "box" of 2k by 2k by 2k of humans.

It really isn't that hard to know who's doing bad things to others, especially with current technology.

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