Posted: Mar 22, 2018 9:34 pm
minininja wrote:purplerat wrote:Do you understand that there is no such thing - physical, virtual, or otherwise - that represents 'a bitcoin' on a 1:1 basis or anything similar to that? It's not like a paper currency with a serial number that can track 1 exact pound or dollar as it changes hands. Transactions are recorded and can be traced but say for example persons A and B each give some bitcoin to person C who then sends some bitcoin to person X. There is no way to trace which "bitcoins" that ended up with person C originated with person A because that's not the way the ledger works.
But for any of those transactions to take place at all they have to be recorded in the ledger, that people have to host, that we now know has something akin to "click here to see children being raped" permanently inscribed upon it.
I think that's a problem.
What's the problem? I mean I get how "click here to see children being raped" is upsetting but seeing that or even clicking on it doesn't actually cause children to get raped. If somebody really wants to see such a thing going through the bitcoin ledger would be a terribly inefficient way of doing so. Stopping it from appearing there isn't going to stop a pedophile from seeing such a thing if they want to.
Are you concerned that non-pedophiles will see something like then and decide they might want to see how child rape suits them? That seems rather unlikely.
But most importantly isn't it a good thing to know where you can go to see a child be raped because that might lead authorities to find out who is doing it and hopefully stop them.