The act of looking and finding would be a crime, because that requires you to rearrange the data in your node to reveal it, so nobody will confirm or deny its presence.

Here’s an example you can try to get the proof of concept, without breaking the law, if you run a bitcoin node:

bitcoin-cli getblock 00000000000000ecbbff6bafb7efa2f7df05b227d5c73dca8f2635af32a2e949 0 | tail -c+92167 | for ((o=0;o<946;++o)) ; do read -rN420 x ; echo -n ${x::130}${x:132:130}${x:264:130} ; done | xxd -r -p | tail -c+9 | head -c184292 > bitcoin.pdf

This extracts a PDF file with embedded images…it just so happens to be Satoshi’s whitepaper, but it didn’t have to be!

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Make no mistake: the fools who are just now thinking about this issue as if it’s something new are probably already guilty of the crime they want to see core node runners be convicted of.

I’m not sure that makes any sense but ok

I’m saying if you run a bitcoin node, what people are so worried about is already there.

So your point is, “cp already exists so don’t try to prevent it.”?

In a sense, that’s exactly what I’m saying. I’m saying those “trying to prevent CP” don’t realize they’re asking for bitcoin to be declared illegal for the illegal content of their bitcoin nodes. I believe bitcoin existing is more important than any bad person storing bad data.

Let police do police work. Or heck, even write bitcoin node software to screen for CP and forward up addresses to police…maybe police should write said software! But to make bitcoin illegal because bad people use it for bad things is a non-starter in my book, no matter how hard they cry “won’t someone please think of the children!”

That doesn’t make a lick of sense.

HFSP

That response also doesn’t make a lick of sense.

If you're going to make your argument, I wouldn't do it with conjecture-based ad hominum.

HFSP