Those governments have all banned heroin. There's still a pretty big market for heroin. Governments aren't good at banning things.
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Replying to @AriDavidPaul @coindesk
because heroin has utility. people get high on it. what's the utility of Bitcoin if you can't easily trade it into fiat?
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Agree. Bitcoin’s vaunted censorship-resistance is completely untested against resolute regulators acting in concert.
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1/ The cryptography is well tested. There are roughly 100k nodes in every legal jurisdiction, and a satellite.
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Replying to @AriDavidPaul @aeviscer8 and
2/ consider that regulators can't even stop the neighborhood drug pusher
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my point is, drugs have utility. people get high on them. what's utility of Bitcoin if you can send it around but can't change to fiat?
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Replying to @c4chaos @AriDavidPaul and
and i'm with
@leashless on this. that it's a myth that Bitcoin can't be turned off.pic.twitter.com/sNtf7kRrix
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Replying to @c4chaos @leashless and
So shredding + taking out some developers = turning off? I disagree. Would be crippled, yes. Off? No.
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Replying to @LucianoThinks @c4chaos and
And by crippling it you'd weaken it enough to open to attack from high profile adversaries. Also verifying transactions would slow
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Replying to @VirgilRoussos @LucianoThinks and
And five years later we would get some kind of ultra hardened steganographic anonymous economic system which would restart the whole cycle.
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and it would be interesting to see how far quantum computing and AI have gone when that time comes. fun times 
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Replying to @c4chaos @leashless and
We are living in interesting times, both a blessing and a curse. Certainly a high fun factor if you consider danger fun.
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