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		agorabinary on Dec 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill t... I don't see why you couldn't put trackers on the blockchain (or a sidechain?). Goodluck taking that down.

forgottenpass on Dec 12, 2014 | [–]

There are plenty of p2p protocols, why complicate the adoption of bitcoin by tying the blockchain to piracy?

DennisP on Dec 12, 2014 | [–]

Right, we only need blockchains when we need global consensus.

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