Putting illegal data on Bitcoin is a self-defeating strategy for anyone other than a State actor. It’s basically prosecution futures. Encoding evidence for all time that any future lawman can use to track you down.

Fears about illegal data being easier to encode are deaf to the incentives against doing so.

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Some people just want to watch the world burn. Have you considered that? Evil exists. I use my property to defend against it, and I have the right to do that. You've made a great argument to not be pessimistic about Bitcoin, but you have not and cannot refute this central claim.

Time to fork?