Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on September 22, 2023, 07:48:36 AM

...yes? Did you miss the slogan "Big Brother is watching you"? Did you miss the Thought Police? How do you propose The Party manages to prohibit specific books, specific speech, and specific thought, if it isn't conducting mass surveillance? Your assertion that "the state should be able to monitor everything" is the first step on the road to 1984.

What you fail to understand is that big brother is loved by the masses . Did you wonder why ?
The biggest weapon is not that there are cameras everywhere but that each one betrays each other . Your narratives don't let you see the most important slogan of the book which is "who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." ( have you thought that bitcoin as a timestamp machine solves this ? ) . What about "ignorance is strength" ? We see that today in the bitcoin community , which was one of the brightest communities years back but it has become a pack of laser eyed maxis with no understanding of the technology that they only interested to pump their bags and buy lambos .

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Because I've committed no crimes. Which is all the more reason the state has no right to surveil every aspect of my life.

But you said some posts above

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on September 21, 2023, 09:41:43 AM

The fact is if this data is gathered, it will be used against you, regardless of whether you have committed any crimes.

You contradict yourself , seems that you do not have a settled opinion .
So , with all the data they have so far about you and the assertion that the state is bad why are you not in jail ? Or me ? Is it because we have committed no crimes or they forgot us ?

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People taking out their phones to film a specific event is completely different to blanket mass surveillance at all times. And no, as I've shared previously in this thread, there is zero evidence that mass surveillance prevents crimes, and even the NSA admit that.

For once more , crimes are not only terrorist attacks (you still didn't answer if you think that boston marathon bombers would continue if they weren't identified ) . Rapes , burglaries , killings , traffic accidents and much much more have been solved due to camera surveillance , private or not .
So i'll ask : Is camera surveillance ( without a label like private or state ) needed ?

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We don't. But either you accept that blockchain analysis is bullshit and therefore all their claims should be completely dismissed and ignored, or you believe they are completely accurate in which case you must also accept that the vast majority of mixer use is perfectly legitimate, as they themselves claim.

You propose Black or White but i prefer Jack Daniels

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on September 22, 2023, 09:01:13 AM

Mixers are propaganda. We've heard that; this board never stops entertaining me. I'm genuinely curious how you interpreted mixing coins as exploiting anything at all. Do you mind providing a little more context?

Mixers are propaganda ? Huh ? Are you on drugs dude ? Do you want to read again what i wrote ?
Propaganda definition : information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view .

You are promoting mixer services , which are not legal . If they were legal none of the mixers owners would be behind bars , right ? Do you explain somewhere that these services are based on trust and are targets of financial crime services and any use of those could potentially lead to loss of funds or even legal problems in the future ? I can't find any . So , you are using propaganda ( look at the definition again ) , as you are biased and have personal gain . Is it so hard to get it ?

Quote from: HmmMAA on September 21, 2023, 08:06:18 PM

Why am i not in jail right now ? Why aren't you in too ? Haven't they got much of our data for some years/decades ?

Pardon, but what the actual fuck? What the hell is your point? Do you actually think they don't have much data to put people behind the bars? And are you using my absence from jail as a basis to argue their lack of concern for me? What kind of twisted reasoning is this...
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My reasoning is twisted , you are so funny . Didn't expect something different from you to be honest . Do you know what Occam's razor is ? Better start using it from time to time .

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on September 22, 2023, 08:49:40 AM

But depending on your needs, you could avoid small block size problem by utilizing merkle tree and only store top/parent hash. Peter Todd did that on Internet Archive data[1]. Otherwise if you don't mind altcoin which have bigger block size and have sufficient skill/time, you could fork opentimestamps[2] to support certain altcoin.

[1] https://petertodd.org/2017/carbon-dating-the-internet-archive-with-opentimestamps
[2] https://github.com/opentimestamps/opentimestamps-client

That still won't work in massive scale with blocks of max 12k transactions ( if all of them are segwit ) per 10 minutes .