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Re: Dirty messages in the block chain
by
dalston5000
on 11/09/2014, 23:54:00 UTC
It is not dirty but I put this message in the blockchain forever:

https://blockchain.info/tx/bf40e4a1c2546747bc800a085e7145d921a9f402aaf4040c155ff5d0df9cc999

That must have taken a lot of valuable time. Which sucks because nobody else would bother to read it.

That is not the issue, the issue is that illegal information could be conveyed that way

Top secret stuff, terrorism ... would that turn the entire blockchain illegal?
It wouldn't turn the entire blockchain illegal.. but it would certainly put you on a watch list.

And I doubt terrorists would reveal their latest plans somewhere where anybody can read it.


An excellent point... to play devil's advocate though, they could send out a notice saying "go now" or something, signalling other jihadis to start an operation they planned earlier.
Why would they even bother having to leave a message? Might as well just say.. the moment 1 satoshi gets sent to an address as the signal to go.