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1. snow, sweaters, and hot chocolate (noelle@elekk.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Mar-2018 19:34:05 UTC snow, sweaters, and hot chocolate

   So, uh, if you have #bitcoin you might want to get rid of it unless you want to be raided for possession of child porn: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/child-abuse-imagery-bitcoin-blockchain-illegal-content

   That's not an exaggeration, apparently there's literally CP /in the #blockchain/.

   • Eugen 💀 repeated this.
   • Eugen 💀 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Mar-2018 19:35:45 UTC Eugen 💀

     in reply to

     @noelle Correction: If you have the blockchain downloaded (this is not always required for using bitcoin)

     But damn this is bad. How did nobody think of this when allowing people to submit arbitrary text and files into the blockchain /to be stored forever/