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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 13h \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
I was getting to like them, in fact, look forward to them.
It all depends upon what reason and for whom you are measuring.
Fahrenheit is human scale.
Celsius is contrived science scale.
Kelvin is the absolute scale for the scientists.
Again, for whom are you measuring and for what purpose?
Don’t think all of the miners could ever be suborned by the state, ever! Ross must have coughed up the keys.
OK, I’ll take your word for it. I just wonder what happened to Ross’ BTC. Did he surrender them to the state by coughing up his keys? How did they track it down and take it away?
How is that when they can shutdown addresses and stop transactions for those addresses? Each BTC or sat is identified as it is used and put on the blockchain, isn’t it?
I cannot remember, either. However, I am very happy not to use a smartphone, let alone apps on one. Some things I have to borrow a phone to do, but I will not carry one or use it if I can avoid it. I like neither the dependency nor the surveillance aspects of that tool.
Yes, I can see that the state enforcers would go after the low-hanging fruit before they even start on the more difficult cases. I think that they would go for the bigger cases before trying to untangle the difficult cases. In that case, the people that took the time to get opsec correctly done may just get overlooked.
Ah…. Yes, but they are notably harsh in the area of tax avoidance and evasion than on almost anything else but counterfeiting! THEY just don’t like competition!
That is my usual way of transacting, but I am still unconfident when doing it. Probably due to lack of experience and knowledge. After all, noobies will noobie.
We collect rainwater and test it frequently! It tests better than reverse osmosis but not quite as good as steam distilled water. We filter it then drink it as is.
Ok, but this sounds to me like any other weapons race with both sides going all out on research to overcome what the other side has done! THEY have a lot of money to do their research, don’t they?
I have also read that BTC may have come out of the DARPA research. If so, has anybody found backdoors, yet?
Yes, but have they made it impossible for you to access your address? If they have, then it is the same as a confiscation.
Yes, but have there been coinciding advances in unraveling all of the opsec in the same period? Keeping privacy is getting more and more difficult every passing moment.
That is good news. Are you sure that there are no accounts? Isn’t an address the same thing as an account, only with a different name? Can’t they freeze addresses?
I don't think anyone's keeping track of all this stuff at all. I think most of the people who have any clue how to keep track of it are on our side.
Let me supply some evidence that they may be able to track BTC due to the blockchain. Didn’t they track down all of Ross Ulbricht‘s BTC and confiscate it all in one fell swope? They also got a lot of other Silk Road BTC, as I understand it. They managed to do that years ago, too.
I think the taint is BS, too. However, when they are blocking and freezing ”tainted” accounts, the BTC cannot be moved around. In other words, the exchanges are working as arms of the state! Now, to find a way to get amounts of BTC off of the exchanges and in circulation anonymously.
Aren’t the exchanges, credit companies and bank requiring Know Your Customer rules to do business? You don’t think that they are cross-referencing all of this information with the blockchain in their databases? I think that they know exactly who owns all the BTC but may not give a hot damn for the small accounts, until tax time.