Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> writes: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Jean Flamelle <eaterjo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is difficult to express so please bear patience. Able >> manipulators of money do exploit the interest in cryptocurrency to >> affect the prices thereof, > > yep, i know. there's no way to regulate or prevent the blatant > insider trading and pump-and-dump scams. interestingly, mining is > inviolate.
I've no idea why you think that -- it seems to me rather like saying that farming poppies is automatically ethical, regardless of whether you expect anyone to harvest the crop and perhaps sell it to people who then profit and spend the resulting income on weapons, say. Anyway, never mind that -- this seems timely: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/child-abuse-imagery-bitcoin-blockchain-illegal-content erm, oops! Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
