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0 pointssmcl4y ago0 comments

> Let's then just declare that because there are illegal things done in the Internet

The difference is that the various law enforcement agencies across the globe frequently succeed in taking sites offering child porn down and prosecute those involved. The point being made was that once it's on your immutable blockchain you can't do that.

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rglullis4y ago· 2 in thread

> The point being made was that once it's on your immutable blockchain you can't do that.

And? it's not because something is on a blockchain that you have to host it, much less interact with it.

smclOP4y ago

Right but someone has to host it though, otherwise your blockchain ceases to exist doesn't it?

rglullis4y ago

Yes and no.

You certainly need to have people validating incoming blocks, and currently you need to have at least some nodes archiving all the data if you want to be able to reconstruct the whole history. But there is a lot of research going on in regards to state pruning, which would let nodes discard parts of the chain that are not interesting.

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