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Cryptocurrency justifiably has a bad rep, given how much profit-motivated hype is attached to it, but it offers an alternative to steganography for resisting government surveillance: fully decentralized platforms that massively increase the cost of enforcing laws against the use of strong encryption.

The public blockchain is the first solution to create a stateful protocol that is fully decentralized and can persist over a long period of time. For a public blockchain to function, it requires a native digital currency that compensates the parties who provide the economically costly digital signal that is used to coordinate the convergence on a shared state.



Fuck you, slop bot.

Guess I found the trap phrases.


Good writing != AI

The blockchain was designed originally to survive state-level attacks. I responded because you brought up both the subject of censorship resistance and cryptocurrency, implying that the two are unrelated, when the former is the latter's raison d'etre.




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