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Its also illegal to make weapons yourself. “You can’t prevent it” is a silly standpoint to argue from. Should you make it legal for American school children to shoot their classmates simply because apparently the country can’t prevent it? No of cause not.

Crypto isn’t just math, and it’s subject to law just like everything else.

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> Its also illegal to make weapons yourself.

Where? Not in the USA. And jstark, the guy who made the FGC-9, was rather conspicuously a resident of Germany [0], so it's not like making self-manufacture of firearms illegal made it impossible for him to do so.

0: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2021/10/12/jstark-passes...

The link seems to disprove your point, the police raided his house.

The point above was that even in the case of making something illegal, it doesn't stop people from physically doing it.

In the USA it is legal to make your own guns.

> The Legal Framework for Individuals: Making a firearm for personal use is legal. Making a firearm for personal use without a federal manufacturing license is legal. This has always been the case, even after the enactment of the Gun Control Act of 1968 ("GCA"). http://freedomblog.skylarklaw.com/2014/10/is-making-firearm-...

Interesting that this came up in a thread about Bitcoin.

> The point above was that even in the case of making something illegal, it doesn't stop people from physically doing it.

Well, that’s precisely my point. You typically don’t ban anything by physically preventing people from doing it.

Ah ok. Seems to be some misunderstanding with words.

The point is that typically when you make something illegal, it is still physically possible to do the thing that is forbidden. That's why it's not at all strange or unusual to ban this very particular usage of "math".

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