dikaios1517 on Nostr: That's been generally my stance as well. Bitcoin is going to be used, and has been ...
That's been generally my stance as well. Bitcoin is going to be used, and has been used, for all kinds of illegal activity. It would be the wrong course of action to try to find a way to keep transactions for certain illegal purposes from being added to a block, or to keep them from being able to route through Lightning.
For Bitcoin's permissionless and censorship resistant qualities to be preserved, even the worst uses for money have to be impossible to block.
Go after the people committing the crimes, rather than trying to block them from using money to commit them.
It seems to me that for Nostr to remain truly permissionless and censorship resistant, the same must be able to be said here, too.
The difference is that other people don't have to see what bad actors are using their Bitcoin for, but random users absolutely can stumble upon the most disturbing illegal content on Nostr.
So we definitely need tools that allow users to only see the content they actually want to see, such as the ones you mentioned.
For Bitcoin's permissionless and censorship resistant qualities to be preserved, even the worst uses for money have to be impossible to block.
Go after the people committing the crimes, rather than trying to block them from using money to commit them.
It seems to me that for Nostr to remain truly permissionless and censorship resistant, the same must be able to be said here, too.
The difference is that other people don't have to see what bad actors are using their Bitcoin for, but random users absolutely can stumble upon the most disturbing illegal content on Nostr.
So we definitely need tools that allow users to only see the content they actually want to see, such as the ones you mentioned.