* Posts by blockchainordeath

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Bitcoin's blockchain: Potentially a hazardous waste dump of child abuse, malware, etc

blockchainordeath

This is just overblown. An example:

Say I create a tweeter account and start posting a series of emojis (smiles and frowns, representing 1 and 0). I have a program that takes an image file in binary format, and translates the image file into a serious of of tweeter posts and posts them automatically. Then I sell another program to some consumers that can re-assemble the image file from the tweets.

This is very straightforward to do, even for someone not so experienced with programming.

So can one then go and blame tweeter as a platform for child porn distribution?

Of course, I admit there is one difference from the blockchain in that Tweeter can delete these tweets, if it detects them, while the transactions on the blockchain are immutable (at least with the current state of the technology).