Hacker News Reader

Comment by Theyeard | Hacker News Reader

The same thing that happens to every other data put in transactions - if they're included in blocks every node (full verifying node [0]) downloads it and stores it locally forever.

[0]: https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/wiki/FullVerification

View on HN

So a lawless space? What if a judge wants the data to be removed?

Then they'd need some very powerful mining equipment! Bitcoin uses merkel trees to ensure transactions in blocks never change.

An unregulated/unregulatable space. Might as well try to regulate math - "PI is 3"

How is that related? If someone puts CP intentionally into the block chain that has nothing to do with math. The spread of child pornography is a criminal offense and they could just force every miner to split the chain or charge them for spread of CP.

Pi is a number. A picture is also a number (a very long one, just like any other file), including CP.

By that logic you could make anything illegal, legal.

> By that logic you could make anything illegal, legal.

I'm not a lawyer but from a technical point of view it's almost impossible to remove any kind of data from a truly distributed network. Be it Bitcoin's Blockchain, BitTorrent or the internet itself. That's just a fact, no judge order will change it, sorry.

And as M4v3R said it'd be very expensive to add a big file like a picture to Blockchain anyway.

You probably have it on your computer already, if someone publishes interesting enough instructions for "retrieving" it.

Its pissing into the wind to try to regulate some things. Like trying to teach a pig to sing? Doesn't work, and annoys the pig.

If the judge is really determined to put you in jail he will find CP, cocaine and unpaid taxes everywhere in your life. Law operates beyond logic and reason: only authoritative opinions and scripture interpretations matter. Ask that question to those who will put handcuffs on you, not to fellow peaceful citizens.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com