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Is darkcoin illegal?

acidburn

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I've been challenged by a few of my peers if darkcoin is legal. It's nothing like bitcoin and with RC4 around the corner that boasts even more functionality that will creases the rift between the 2 coins one has to ask if this is an enabler of crime.

What do you think?
 
I believe the most relevant counter question would be: "Is cash illegal?"

What is different about darkcoin than using plain cash?
 
To say any crypto currency is an enabler of crime is both misleading and ignorant. If that was the case than fiat currencies would be just as bad with "enabling" crime. No drug deal goes down with out any form of currency. Every nefarious character always uses cash or diamonds or gold or whatever is more convenient to them for the time. It's supremely ignorant to think that at one point in time in your life your cash hasn't been used for something like this. I read this a lot when crypto first came out but worse when places like silkroad got busted. Personally I don't care what one person does with their life but when major news outlets spew out tons of incorrect data and claims it to be profit I can get a little agitated but that's just me though.
 
Nothing about Darkcoin is inherently illegal, and Darkcoin does not facilitate illegal activity any more than cash does...
 
I've been challenged by a few of my peers if darkcoin is legal. It's nothing like bitcoin and with RC4 around the corner that boasts even more functionality that will creases the rift between the 2 coins one has to ask if this is an enabler of crime.

What do you think?
As Darkcoin is literally a accumulation of numbers (blockchain, blocks, transactions) and I still believe we live in a world where numbers are not illegal Darkcoin is not supposed to be illegal.

On that note:

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Legality is a concept linked to laws and jurisdictions, so there is no way to talk in absolute terms about it. On the other hand, cryptos are something super new. Laws haven't caught up with bitcoin yet, so don't ask them about darkcoin!

Darkcoin is about privacy and many governments have recognized the right to privacy. It can be used to illegal things (just like cash... or even bank accounts!), but there are many more legal uses, so there should be no problem in the future with darkcoin as a concept. They may try to regulate some aspects, but that's all in my opinion. This doesn't mean that if you do illegal things with darkcoin you'll be alright, they will still be illegal, but not because you do them with darkcoin.

My bet is that governments will try to regulate cryptos as they grow because it is a part of the economy that escapes their taxes and they are revenue-hungry. The problem for them is that it is not easy. They may regulate some big points of exchange between fiat and cryptos, but trying any other thing is pointless. That is a big part of the money entering the crypto world, but not the only one. People mine, sell products or services... or even buy cryptos peer to peer in markets like localbitcoins.

Another thing I believe they may do in the future, in their quest to tax everything, is to datamine the blockchain. If they do, that will be a huge advantage in favour of darkcoin because it protects the privacy of its users better than other cryptos. I don't say it will happen tomorrow, but I think it will happen. Old transactions will still be there, so people should be conscious that every time they use bitcoin, it will stay there. Forever. You don't have to be evading taxes to desire that your government don't sniff into your transactions and profile you. Or your insurance company... but I'm diverting from the topic!
 
I would reply but Fernando's answer was on target. I would only add that the notion of privacy having anything to do with something illegal is silly. You would not want everybody knowing your bank accounts balances, salary, expending habits, etc. Darkcoin is not the problem is the solution. About people doing bad things they have been doing them since the beginning of time and no currency will change that.
 
I will add one thing. Regulators/legislators are not always informed people, and even when they are they act moved by headlines in the news. Perception is everything, especially in such an early stage as we are now. So...

Please, please, please, be responsible with how you talk about darkcoin. Comments are taken out of context and spread like wildfire. Then people develop misguided perceptions and bad regulation happen or people don't adopt darkcoin. This goes especially for those with more public profiles, but applies to everyone.
 
I consider nothing illegal as long it's not explicitly written down somewhere.

American law (in theory, not always in practice) operates under the assumption that all things are permissible unless expressly prohibited. But I once heard someone say that it was the opposite in the UK, but I'm not sure if they meant the modern UK or medieval Britain (was mentioned in a historical disucssion).
 
It's been an interesting conversation to have. A lot of the folks I work with have this magical idea that cryptos are helping and aiding illegal activity. I disagree totally.

This thread has helped in my counter argument.
 
American law (in theory, not always in practice) operates under the assumption that all things are permissible unless expressly prohibited. But I once heard someone say that it was the opposite in the UK, but I'm not sure if they meant the modern UK or medieval Britain (was mentioned in a historical disucssion).
I do encourage to read the book "Freedom Is More Than a 7-Letter Word" by Veronica Chapman to actually understand by what kind of rules you have to abide, based on basic principles of the common folk that used to judge things by common sense rather than lawyers and jurisdiction based on hundreds of thousands of pages of legalese.

According to the book, we are led to believe that we have to follow statutes that have no real inherent foundation or ground on which they operate, other than the wish of some power-hungry individuals, yet we are led to believe that if we do not follow them, we will end up in jail (the author gives some pretty good information on how to avoid this though, shall you decide to join such a movement). Of course the ground on which this book is written is highly biased on the Freeman On The Land Movement itself but still contains a few good commonsensical principles on which we can at least understand the entire situation better the author finds herself in while remaining on a pretty safe ground in the middle without actually breaking any "laws" that could endanger you to end up in court.
 
Uh, yeah, while we're at it, I suggest H.D. THOREAU "Resistance to Civil Government" (1848) and D. GRAEBER "Direct Action" (2013).
 
As Darkcoin is literally a accumulation of numbers (blockchain, blocks, transactions) and I still believe we live in a world where numbers are not illegal Darkcoin is not supposed to be illegal.

On that note:

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And now I'm being sued....
 
I look at it in terms of Adena, the currency of the computer game Lineage 2.
Farming Adena is somewhat similar to Mining a crypto, but people choose to buy instead.

People buy in-game items with Adena but on forums people barter for real items. I thought Adena or Bitcoin/Darkcoin are legal so long as the real items involved are legal in your jurisdiction/s.
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I look at it in terms of Adena, the currency of the computer game Lineage 2.
Farming Adena is somewhat similar to Mining a crypto, but people choose to buy instead.

People buy in-game items with Adena but on forums people barter for real items. I thought Adena or Bitcoin/Darkcoin are legal so long as the real items involved are legal in your jurisdiction/s.
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