[Cryptography] Our leader opines on cryptocurrencies

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Tue Aug 6 17:50:05 EDT 2019


In article <a28af53e-7bcc-da47-69f6-da9c2a77a737 at firemail.cc> you write:
>Every 1$ note is the same as every other 1$ note.
>Every bitcoin is the same as every other bitcoin.

Things would be different if there were a public ledger of every
transaction of every $1 note.

>The money stays in your wallet. Be it black or not. If they'd start
>freezing funds, it would hurt the whole currency.

For bitcoins, that happened years ago.

R's,
John


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