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Comment by acdha

Again, my point isn’t that the state of executive powers is great but rather that magical thinking about technology won’t solve them.

Moving real money into Bitcoin will leave a paper trail, as does moving it out. If you don’t disclose that or surrender control when required by law, they’re not going to just give up — that’s more like jail time until you cooperate (money laundering is an obvious lever), and most other countries will go along with that. Similarly, companies which are trying to be legit aren’t going to touch tainted bitcoins since they don’t want to be pulled in as accomplices.

parent acdha 9 years ago

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