>an adversarial actor can poison the blockchain with bits that make downloading, storing and processing the blockchain a highly illegal act.
Exactly. I brought up the same scenario recently.[1]
The top 2 replies to my comment was basically, "unless you're looking for illegal data, it's not a problem."
That head-in-the-sand ignorance completely misses the point. It's not about how _you_ specifically ignore illegal data and therefore, you have absolution of guilt. It's about the whole world's response to bad data in the blockchain.
Exactly. I brought up the same scenario recently.[1]
The top 2 replies to my comment was basically, "unless you're looking for illegal data, it's not a problem."
That head-in-the-sand ignorance completely misses the point. It's not about how _you_ specifically ignore illegal data and therefore, you have absolution of guilt. It's about the whole world's response to bad data in the blockchain.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14434786