What problems could this pose and how can it be solved?

So you have all the tech answers, yet you didn’t know that files could be stored on the bitcoin blockchain? LOL Sounds like you don’t really have a clue about any of this. How can you claim that changing the law is the only solution if you didn’t even know this was possible?

You think got me lol? You didn’t… I can tell you exactly that…

I understand the fundamental issue here, if you can control any parameter of the information that goes on the blockchain you can store information, which parameters you can control determines how easy and efficient that is. The question becomes, how and which parameters you can control.

I dont use bitcoin, bitcoin is a ponzi scheme, and have no interest in it from a technical side. I dont know how bitcoin works, how the addresses are generated etc. and I dont need to, to understand the fundamental issue here… I would just assume that it was a random process to me, but after researching it, I do see you can control certain parameters… and also just thought of that even also just the fact you can control the (transaction amount) you would be able to store information… and I am sure people have found other methods, some easier and more efficient than others.

Its all about Code, thats all the blockchain is… If you can control certain parts of the input in a predictable manner, you can store code… A file, is just a piece of code/information in a certain order… and it takes two parts to make that into something you can understand both a human action and a decoder… and that is the process you have to legislate, not the code itself.

With Cardano this issue becomes 10 fold… since much more data will be able to be added to transactions, and in a easy way. But again, I do not think at all this will become a threat to blockchain as whole, this will be dealt with legislatively.

It will never catch on to use Cardanos settlement layer or Bitcoin as a means of transferring illegal content, since it is inefficient and expensive, and not that private, but there will always be “few” cases or deliberate attacks… With smart-contracts I dont know what the cost will be… but it doesn’t matter, since it doesn’t solve the issue of incrimination.

Now you are getting into science fiction and narcissistic philosophizing. The tangible issue at hand is how damaging can this be to Bitcoin and blockchain for those of who do not place kiddie porn on it. For the opponents of crypto this seems like a potentially potent weapon. What does it mean for the future of public DLT ? Those are the real questions.

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Some blockchains like siacoin are designed specifically for data storage / cloud computing. So if illegal material is being stored on other peoples computers does that make them culpable ? I suppose not since they are unable to assemble the data ? It seems ridiculous to me that anybody with a qt bitcoin wallet would be breaking the law.

Yeah you took one excerpt out of context, with a huge bunch of points, answering exactly that question.

As it is today, in most countries they are breaking the law, not only are they in possession but they are redistributing. Which is why this whole thing comes to down to changing the definition, and legislating action rather than the code.

and yes it is ridiculous, which is exactly why the laws will adapt, and no court in their right mind will sent people to jail.

To summarize, one solution is that it would be illegal to encode, and illegal to decode and consume, illegal material, but the code itself, is not illegal - in this way it is human actions that are illegal and punishable - and not people who have nothing to do with it. This is not a old problem, but it is new in that we haven’t had to deal with it from this exact angle.

Regarding the point of assembling the data, if it is not encrypted, anyone who wanted to could do it, but even if it is encrypted, you are still in possession and you are still redistributing.

If the mere possession of the blockchain is illegal and subject to public prosecution; then the Researchers from RWTH Aachen University in Germany and the Data Protection Research Institute at Goethe University in Frankfurt should also be prosecuted for downloading the content.

What one forgets is the Intentionality of the activity.

Add to it the fact that almost anyone from lawyers and politicians to perhaps even Buddhists monks and Christian saints and Muslims Mullahs who ever have been online or make use of modern communication technologies may have invariably clicked or one time or another were induced to click a link to a compromising site without being aware of it.

Most of our private computers are infected!

It is not the possession but the Intentionality (the purpose in each use-case) that is legally binding.

Otherwise many of those in public service including the top politicians would be in jail! So almost most of us anyway!

Regarding storage cryptos like Siacoin: it is encrypted and stored on at least 3 different computers. Only the person that purchases the DLT cloud service should be able to reassemble and decrypt the data. So I don’t see how the people storing it could be charged with redistribution.
The law is always far behind the rapidly evolving tech industry. The U.S. typically has an excessive knee jerk response to make an example of the purported crime. That has been the case with putting hacktivists in prison for extended periods. I would argue the same with Ross.

What makes you think that cryptos enemy is going to change legislation? I think you’re being real ignorant when it comes to this. Governments around the world are already pushing back against crypto and you claim it’s as simple as changing a law.

This whole thread became a pissing match because I called @jb455 a narcissist in another thread. It’s kinda sad because this could be a real issue, especially if we wait for the enemy to change legislation.