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102 sats \ 12 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 12h \ parent \ on: DISCUSS: "If you ever made a sat from spam, you are a bad actor" bitcoin
Dodges the question is the problem. What if someone does that with a million dollar bill. You gonna take it?
probably. I can do a lot of washing for a million dollars.
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But you can never wash away what you had to accept.
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This makes no sense.
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I'm saying you can't wash away the memory that you took a million dollars that had a wad of cum dripping off the edges of it--you know--to put it indelicately.
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so...the analogy is that we can't wash away the memory that there is spam in transactions included in the bitcoin blockchain?
okay: the conversation isn't about what one does in order to receive the payment, but about what is on the payment itself, the nature of the specie.
I might agree that there are things I won't do for a million dollars.
But if I found a million dollars -- even in the state you so well describe -- I would be very willing to do quite a lot of cleaning.
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The analogy is meant to point out where you draw the purity line with money is arbitrary for most folks. You can say that someone's opinion is irrelevant because you think they aren't "pure enough" whatever that means—but if you move it to what you will receive you generally find people will accept money from most anyone or anywhere. It makes the ethical objection irrelevant, of course, because you are still a whore, whether you spam nfts or take a zillion bitcoin from someone who does.
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You missed the point of the analogy entirely. If you pay a stripper then service and the medium of exchange / unit of account are entirely distinct.
If you add content to the medium of exchange the only way is down, it's impossible to make the medium of exchange more valuable, you can only make it less valuable, distorting by diluting its function, adding noise.
These experiments were all made on shitcoins and they all devalued against bitcoin.
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Actually, I made the analogy, so I know what the point is I was making, and it wasn't the one you are advocating.
What you value is the thing I'm drawing attention to, not how you pay for it. That you value sin is an easy price to calculate--it is paid in blood. It matters not what currency you use to purchase it.
Like spam, it's not black and white, not deterministic. If a bunch of people have to pass the million dollar to me they might take a bit more time, so I would rather it not be full of cum.
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Whether you take the million dollars is deterministic and black and white. That's the point.
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