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by seibelj 1411 days ago
You can’t stop crime, otherwise murder wouldn’t happen. If you give people a modicum of freedom then some amount of them will act with criminal intent.

Arguably the blockchain makes detecting and prosecuting money laundering easier than our opaque legacy financial system.

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Right, in the same way that in the hypothetical Blockchain utopia anyone seeing you eat at a coffeeshop can also see what porn sites you visit, how often you shop at the dispensary, and which escorts you prefer to visit.