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by managerclass 1889 days ago
Ask any criminal on the dark web weather Bitcoin has value or not. Having an asset that no government can take away from you is invaluable.
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Your comment may have been accurate 10 years ago when Silk Road existed, but nowadays people have moved on from bitcoin. The easily traceable ledger is a liability.
Utter bullshit. Some are trying to move on, but most have not.
This is exactly what I would want people to believe if I were a government that knew all the cryptography involved was totally broken.