eddie13, it’s good that you saw
one of the best and most important posts that I have ever made on this forum. I hope that you didn’t
miss my point; it seems that everyone else did, and
gmaxwell avoided it. You could probably discern my opinion of “money laundering” from my older post that I linked about “
so-called ‘money laundering’”, plus the use of scare quotes; whereas the real issue hereby is the use of “money laundering” as a weapon for FUD, fearmongering, and negative hype.
To accuse NFTs of being “
really 90% cover for money laundering” is worse than a foolish shitpost: It is
unethical. My gut reaction to that post was a long string of profanities, although I tried to keep my public responses reasonably professional. For in the realm of anything related to cryptography, vague broad-brush smears accusing others of “money laundering” is like dumping radioactive waste into the yard of someone whom you happen to dislike for whatever reason. It is a dirty-bomb for public relations.
Why would he do that? The more that I analyse it, the clearer it is that he was defensively projecting his own issues when he spoke about “massive insecurity” and “blockchain fetishism”. I am not insecure; and I am the last person in the world who could be accused of “blockchain fetishism”. I have a solid history of explaining in technically precise terms what the blockchain is and is
not good for; and it’s just dumb to suggest that the blockchain is good for fungible but not non-fungible assets, insofar as the use cases of “financial ledger” and “chain of title” are almost indistinguishable in terms of their respective requirements and security models. Whereas it seems that gmaxwell got triggered by the word “blockchain”. Perhaps he suffers post-traumatic stress from the Fork Wars and/or the ICO Plague; I sympathize with that, but it’s no excuse for lobbing a dirty-bomb into your neighbour’s yard.
To put things in proper perspective without potentially inviting blowback to a leading Bitcoin developer who is a
genius at inventing methods to conceal the source and destination of funds, I reframed the discourse around something which is too big and too powerful to be vulnerable:
“Modern art”. I claim as fact that >99% of all “modern art” is a cover for “money laundering”. This is well-known in some circles; I am
far from being the first to observe it.
My purpose hereby is to tell people who are worried about “money laundering” to go slay a dragon, rather than stomping on an innocent little mouse.
PSA: If you really want to stop “money laundering”, then you need to ban “modern art”. This will have the ancillary benefit of making the world less ugly. Eh, well, good luck with that. Write to your Congressthingie, and don’t forget to vote! 🐑
Although we enjoyed a lot on this NFT day but did anyone miss Lauda on this event ?
As a matter of readily ascertainable historical fact,
yes. 😿 Straight from Page 1, posted about 37 minutes after the joke thread began:
Lauda has no NFTs. 😿
Of course, I would check. My intent had been to dump mprep-III at its current low, low price so that I could buy a Kitty.
Edit:
Of course, that makes no sense. Same problem as with satoshi. But none of this makes sense. 
How
is it that NFTs are being traded for some users who have not logged in for a long time? The users themselves cannot list them. Thus, their NFTs are being passed around like cheap whores without their consent.
theymos, prepare to be sued for intellectual property violation!
Although we enjoyed a lot on this NFT day but did anyone miss Lauda on this event ?
No.
The cats NFTs are in demand and could be the most worthy ones to buy
brb while I kill myself
Go ahead.
I will not interfere. For if there is such a thing as a natural and indefeasible right, it is an animal’s right to its own body and life. In more civilised and rational societies, no one ever attempted such outrageous tyranny as the Christians thought their superstition authorised—certainly no one attempted to curtail that inalienable right of free men, and efforts to prevent the suicide of slaves or captives were regarded as a form of vicious selfishness.
The door is always open, such that life cannot become a dungeon in which we are hopelessly imprisoned. If the thought of crypto Kitty NFTs makes life seem insupportable to you, I will not do the cruelty of trying to deny your right to leave.
