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by josephagoss 3066 days ago
I'm a cryptocurrency supporter but I'm not anti tax or anti government. I genuinely think that decentralized trust based systems such as blockchain have a place in our world even alongside government.

With that said, I would like to believe that if caught, these types of seed hacks could be prosecuted. (If viable)
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vog 3066 days ago
> I'm a cryptocurrency supporter but I'm not anti tax or anti government.

The GNU Taler project might be interesting to you, then.

It is based on design decisions that are refreshingly different from classic crypto currencies (who implement more an anarcho-capitalism mindset). Because of those design differences, I'm not sure if it should be considered a crypto currency or not. (They themselves do not.)

Website: https://gnutaler.org/

Presentation at SHA2017: https://taler.net/videos/sha2017taler.webm

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paulrd 3066 days ago
BEWARE: apparently gnutaler.org is a fake website taler.net is the correct one! source: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/taler/2018-01/msg00009.htm...
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vog 3066 days ago
Whoops, wrong URL. Sorry for the confusion!

https://taler.net/

(Too bad I can't edit my original comment anymore here on HN. I find it disgusting to have helped spread a scam website and not being able to fix that afterwards.)

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pbhjpbhj 3066 days ago
Paging dang, can you fix this?
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banachtarski 3066 days ago
So as a non-cryptocurrency suppporter, what's the point then? Making things distributed necessarily makes it slower and harder/more expensive to regulate (let alone operate). Not to mention the high volatility which is the primary thing that gives a currency any value (hence, why the US Dollar is considered the reserve currency of the world: its stability). At some point, a duck is a duck. This duck is a fun experiment and someone discovered how to combine proof of work (old concept) with quorums (old concept) and a distributed ledger (old concept) that altogether gave the illusion of something unique and usable. I'm seeing worse usability on all fronts, no endgame in sight (except to move to a new currency when transaction fees get high), little to no regulation, and a worser world in general. It's also ecologically irresponsible (centralized currencies will _always_ be more efficient by definition).

I don't care that I can make a quick buck by preying on people's FOMO, the whole movement is fueled by seemingly emotional, albeit baseless, arguments and bravado.

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