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Participating in Datacoin sounds legally dangerous. All a miscreant needs to do is include into its blockchain some files that are illegal to possess, and everyone is potentially in trouble.

It would be like this, but worse: http://www.dailydot.com/business/bitcoin-child-porn-transact...




Such link could be sent with a bank transfer too - I don't think you could then claim the bank holds and spreads the links to child abuse. Or could you?


That's an interesting scenario, and I don't know how much distinction is made between possession of illegal material and possession of a means of instantly retrieving it.

Datacoin has the storage capacity to include the actual images as part of the blockchain though, not just (probably quite ephemeral) links to such.




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