If you are someone who has downloaded bitcoin’s blockchain, you might have violated a dozen of your country’s laws, at least according to research published by Germany’s RWTH Aachen University. The research suggests that Bitcoin’s blockchain could be storing anything that could make mere possession of the blockchain illegal. The researchers’ examples ranged from child pornography to copyrighted material, to any other digital files that could be illegal in the user’s jurisdiction. The knowledge that bitcoin’s blockchain contains dodgy stuff is not a revelation. Even though this is the first time it has been confirmed through research, there have been speculations…
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Wednesday 21 March 2018
