Posted: Mar 22, 2018 7:55 pm
minininja wrote:purplerat wrote:newolder wrote:The blockchain may contain illegal stuff, readable by anyone who is part of the scheme. None of my pound coins, £5 notes, or bank account details do. Is this the difference you seek, purplerat?
Just to go back to this; while you say your notes don't include anything, they could. Like if somebody wrote an url to an illicit website on your £5 note and you knew it was there would possessing that note be a crime? How about when you spend it, are you then engaging in criminal distribution?
Would you spend a banknote if it had a URL on it that you knew linked to child abuse images?
Well, there's the rub. I'd have to go to the link to know for sure, which would itself be a crime. Personally, I wouldn't do that and would probably just write it off as a gag and spend it.
I suppose you could say I should notify some authorities but I'd honestly be worried about getting caught up in that at all. Much more likely that it ends in a big mess for me than resulting in anything good coming of it.