Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
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What reason are you referring to?
Anonymous / private payments
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Exactly. That's why you had to fill out all the KYC paperwork when you create your Bitcoin wallet.
Oh, you didn't?
Crypto is not hidden, but it can be anonymous. You can't hide that you got money from X account and spent it at Y account. But there's no name tied to the transaction.
that's pseudonymous, but if you remove all links with your original identity, you can even use non-privacy coins and not be known
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You know, except for Monero. Really sucks that real private anonymous internet money is getting pushed out of all places possible, while crap like Bitcoin freely exists.
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No worries, we can still swap conventional coins to XMR. Many smaller countries are not interested in reguling it, and we already know a few exchanges that don't give a fuck
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Anonymous / private payments
The whole point of the blockchain is it for it to be traceable, though. There's only the illusion of anonymity with crypto
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If you have access to real debrid, sometimes they have insanely old torrents in cache. I've resurrected quite a few decades old bangers from the pirate bay that way.
And if there is. Please seed that.
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paying in crypto is nice partly for this reason
But a lot of uneducated people will spam "crypto is a scam"
Too bad the rich control it now.
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The whole point of the blockchain is it for it to be traceable, though. There's only the illusion of anonymity with crypto
That's complete misinformation.
The point of blockchain is not to be traceable but not alterable or tamperable with unauthorized or false data. A distributed database that can't easily be faked.
Some cryptocurrencies, like Monero, achieve high anonymity. While not perfect, good opsec will fix its flaws. Just like anything. That's not the case with the majority of cryptocurrencies though, but saying anonymity is but an illusion is just false.
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Too bad the rich control it now.
If you mean through regulation, yes, partly
If you mean they hold most of it and thus have a total decision power, then I must disagree
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Orphaned domains like this are interesting, there was a defcon talk, I think, where the presenter bought a bunch of blacklisted orphaned domains just to see if anything would try and connect to them. They got hit with so many botnet clients trying to phone home.
Please post a link if you're able, that sounds like a very interesting watch.
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paying in crypto is nice partly for this reason
But a lot of uneducated people will spam "crypto is a scam"
Crypto is a scam.
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Crypto is a scam.
Breaking news! Criminals (but not only) use crypto, and people get scammed. This happens as well with fiat, so that must surely mean fiat is a scam!
Flawless logic, really. You people impress me with your thinking.
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Breaking news! Criminals (but not only) use crypto, and people get scammed. This happens as well with fiat, so that must surely mean fiat is a scam!
Flawless logic, really. You people impress me with your thinking.
if you sell something for $1 at 10am your $1 still buys $1 at 10pm.
in crypto, it's easily manipulated, and that's by design. it's a scam because the only people who have that control are the wealthy.
If I sell 1BT worth of something at 10am, it could be worth 2BT at 10pm, but it could also be worth .1BT equally.
the purpose of a Fiat currency is economic supremacy that is backed by the governing body and the economy that uses it.
tell me, what governing body or economy is crypto backed by?
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And if there is. Please seed that.
I usually do, but in general they're dead for lack of demand