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Board Wallet software
Re: Wasabi blacklisting update - open letter / 24 questions discussion thread
by
n0nce
on 10/08/2022, 22:50:35 UTC
People who have not commited any crimes in the past have went to prison. Ross Ulbricht went to prison because he was willing to show everyone that bitcoin can function as a payment mechanism for merchants and to exchange goods and services.
Ross is known for creating the most popular drug marketplace in the dark net. I'm sure he went to prison because of that.
For what it's worth, Silk Road was a black market / free market, in the sense that you could sell and buy whatever you wanted. So it's right that he showed how free money (Bitcoin) allows to to freely buy and sell whatever you want, if it's fungible.
That's why it's not bad it's being brought up in this context. We need fungibility to be able to use Bitcoin as free(dom) money.