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0 pointsDINKDINK6y ago0 comments

>It doesn't do anything for people who don't want their services used by bad actors, which is increasingly the case these days

My comment illustrates precisely how such an incentive structure denies high-resource demand users.

>That would only solve paying for services if you are an amoral service provider and don't care where the money really comes from as long as you get paid.

This makes no sense to me, sorry. Are you claiming that anyone who accepts cash payments is amoral because a euro/dollar bill could be stolen and equivalently people who accept bitcoin payments are amoral because they don't surveil their customer's financial history?

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skybrian6y ago

By "amoral" I don't mean immoral, I mean you don't care what anyone does and you're happy not knowing the consequences of your actions.

Depending on what you're providing, maybe that's fine. In the open source world, we give away code all the time, to everyone. Most public reading material is fine.

But services differ and for some services of interest to bad actors, many people are concerned about the consequences when they do business.

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