[skybrian]

That would only solve paying for services if you are an amoral service provider and don't care where the money really comes from as long as you get paid.

It doesn't do anything for people who don't want their services used by bad actors, which is increasingly the case these days - see all the people concerned about privacy and how big tech companies use their data. It's not going to help for anything social where you are trying to promote pro-social usage and discourage anti-social usage, however you define it.

Those concerns inevitably lead to things like "know your customer" and supply-chain policing. You can still build nice services, but not anonymous ones.

The issues are pretty much the same as TOR. Some people are willing to run TOR nodes because the good outweighs the bad, others get squeamish about child pornography and say: no thanks.

And that's why it's an API. If the "have I been owned" database were harmless and there were no concerns about bad actors, it would be a torrent, not a service.

[DINKDINK]

>It doesn't do anything for people who don't want their services used by bad actors, which is increasingly the case these days

My comment illustrates precisely how such an incentive structure denies high-resource demand users.

>That would only solve paying for services if you are an amoral service provider and don't care where the money really comes from as long as you get paid.

This makes no sense to me, sorry. Are you claiming that anyone who accepts cash payments is amoral because a euro/dollar bill could be stolen and equivalently people who accept bitcoin payments are amoral because they don't surveil their customer's financial history?

[skybrian]

By "amoral" I don't mean immoral, I mean you don't care what anyone does and you're happy not knowing the consequences of your actions.

Depending on what you're providing, maybe that's fine. In the open source world, we give away code all the time, to everyone. Most public reading material is fine.

But services differ and for some services of interest to bad actors, many people are concerned about the consequences when they do business.