luka
Well-known member
building the database... thats why its important to have a patsy go on the dark web for you
The Microgig Economy
- Thread starter Clinamenic
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Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
It seems easy enough to acquire a device which doesn’t have its IP address (or any of its IP addresses?) associated with ones legal identity. That, combined with VPN.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Short of IP tracking, by way of techniques beyond my awareness and comprehension, I don’t know how else regulators could combat contraband commerce with crypto.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
It seems so easy to wash as much money as you want.
william_kent
Well-known member
that's not what I was getting at - I know it's easy to spoof a MAC address, run a bot-net, etc
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
You mean you wonder about whether or not some of these blockchains are, themselves, stings?
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I’d suspect that would be effective to a limit, but my point was that even that would seem easily circumnavigable.
william_kent
Well-known member
there's an old adage "follow the money" and if you create a system where it is supposedly hidden but because you ( meaning a 3 letter agency ) created it you can track everything....
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Are you talking about Monero? I assume it doesn’t have a public blockchain explorer, I.e. that you can’t trace transactions (unless there was an invisible panopticon built in from the start, which you may be suggesting), but I haven’t really looked into monero, nor am I that interested in total financial privacy.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Would be a hilarious stunt, if monero was indeed a sting from the start. With the IRS even playing along by posting a bounty for anyone who can hack it.
william_kent
Well-known member
I suppose I'm paranoid - I still buy my drugs with the ultimate medium for anonymous, untraceable transactions - it's called "cash"
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Denial. Pure, frenzied, money-grubbing denial.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
The function of stupidity, etc.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
not cynical, full of hope, the British will always try to cure you of these aspects, fuck all to do with stupid
jaundice and damage haven’t had time to form a film on your soul and coagulate yet, not age discrimination but plan for the worst is only a cliche because it holds value
this is just a personal query with blockchain, where’s it all headed, what if it doesn’t know and ploughs on into much more shadowy realms? how do you irrigate anything necessary for the good of the planet when redistribution processes are built on a form of hoarding ie systemic disincentives to share? how do you unchain yourself from automata? (scraped a C at gcse maths, clearly)
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Very speculative, much of the hope. I generally think these technical, taking into account the good and the bad, result in a net positive.
Capitalism is the worst system, aside from every other system, and so and so on.
But perhaps the major hypothesis with blockchain and defi is that people can outsource their income-generation to their assets. And if the state can be involved in issuing assets to people, as Miami's mayor is planning on doing, then we take a step toward this automated welfare utopia where people can afford to refine their skillsets to compete in higher order job markets, while their assets make their ends meet for them.
I expect there to be some major tech barons of the web3 era, larger than the tech barons of today, but even given todays arrangement, the internet is simply too big and complex for any one of them to dictate. The same may go for the blockchain ecosystem. Bitcoin alone is too much for any one party to take down, yet alone a collection of global, permissionless blockchains.
woops
is not like other people
it's become self aware
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I am Kapital incarnate.