Gold was involved, too

another untraceable good unlike bitcoin with hashes

But again, I'll reiterate, evil is done by transactions. Currency is irrelevant.

evil is done regardless of transactions though

what's the disagreement again?

@DrYuriMom well, less evil done via fiat because crims know it's immuteable.

Can I step back a bit and say that for me personally, you're actually making a great case, @Graylan | gray00.

@DrYuriMom how many drug dealers sell cocaine via bitcoin or usd

My cynicism about crypto itself is decreasing.

Oh, it's all USD

bitcoin sucks dont get me wrong

but it's block to block kinda signing makes it so where u cant hide shit

I know this from my own experience on a jury as well as dealing with that culture through my job.

@DrYuriMom sorry im just passionate af

I get it

so much misinformation

and i just get passionate

some people find the transparency in bitcoin valuable, like charities for example, which might be most of bitcoins traffic

transparency is important for basically all parties in charity

But I just know government and they don't like competition. The two most basic monopolies of government are force and money. They're very jealous of both.

ye

@DrYuriMom lots of people in that whole system and if you watch congress's talks on that

you may have a differnt pOV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWQmQ_0Ovxs

but bitcoin was kind of built so that you can use it even when it's illegal

it's just like torrents or any other p2p

yeah

so everyone is right, in a way, it just depends on context

long as users want it , it will be on nodes.

it's blockchaining fam

How would you feel if government took over crypto? Maintained the chains on government servers?

I'd kick the gubmint in the but 😡

@DrYuriMom it's not possible unless they come and shoot me to death and some how find my keys.

that would just mean someone would fork it immediately and take the copy back

im concensus node top 20

and they have to come kill me, find my keys

I mean make all other forms illegal

and government would run an empty network nobody uses

and then do that to 16 other people in my network

Again, I'm not supporting this. I'm probing my cynicism.

that are also voted to be in the top 20