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102 sats \ 3 replies \ @beameduplol 12h \ parent \ on: DISCUSS: "If you ever made a sat from spam, you are a bad actor" bitcoin
Byproduct of being ungoverned right.
if the state uses bitcoin to pay the police it uses to throw a person in jail and confiscate their bitcoin, is this understanding the ethical principles the whole system is built around or not?
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Assuming I've read your reply right:
As long as it's being used for monetary purposes.
Confiscation of funds from a thief(?) is a valid monetary transaction. So is paying out a worker for their efforts.
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I was thinking about the statement in your original post "It depends on intention" -- although admittedly I was stretching it a bit.
if you still support it today with the war going on, then maybe you're not built for Bitcoin
Bitcoin should always be at war. That's the nature of a permissionless system. If its concepts only work when people agree on everything, then it's not very useful.
I think it is useful, though. It's useful because it gives humans a way to agree even when they disagree about almost everything.
The only thing required of a person in order to use bitcoin is to agree to accept it. But this is also the only tool we have to actually enforce the rules (and call a transaction invalid) -- don't accept the coin if you don't like it.
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