Quote from: luv2drnkbr on February 25, 2015, 09:14:52 PM

Quote from: tzpardi on February 12, 2015, 10:52:16 AM

All due respect Peter, but being concerned about having illegal data in a system is not absurd

I'm not Peter, but yes it absolutely is absurd. What is legal is constantly changing and has thousands of different definitions depending on where you happen to be.

The whole point of Bitcoin is technology that works across all borders and allows for consensus everywhere, irrespective of borders and man-made laws. If you don't like some of the data that gets stored on your computer, you are free to delete it. But yes, full nodes must keep all data passed to them. That's how the system works. It's *good* it works that way.

Yes tools that enable free speech also allow bad guys to say bad things, but having free speech guaranteed by technology is worth that price. Tor is valuable even if it allows pedos to set up hidden services. PGP is valuable even if it means the terrorists can plan things. Bitcoin is valuable even if it means nodes get passed data they don't approve of. The benefits of these technologies far outweight these concerns, and their preservation is of the utmost importance, far outweighing the concern for the bad things bad people do with them. Robbers and kidnappers use cars and phones to do the bad things they do -- but would you think it's appropriate that the government should monitor where you go and who you call to make sure that you don't engage in that activity?

There is no tool that only does good things for good people. There are only tools. We accept that some tools make life easier for bad people, because they also make life so much better for good people. Having phones and cars... and Tor and PGP and Bitcoin, is better than a world without those things. And talking about crippling them so that their bad uses are harder does nothing but cripple the entire system, and subverts the entire point of the technology.

There is no phone that can only be used by good people. And there is no distributed consensus system that can take any kind of data except illegal data. And to talk about such a thing is silly... but to *want* such a thing is absurd.

Yes, it is absurd.

There should be an upvote or karma button on this forum.
Or otherwise a bitcoin voting system something.

I like your post. I would upvote.