If you are running a node, you should be encrypting your drive

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Quote from: cellard on April 04, 2018, 01:27:27 PM

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I just find this possible Orwellian future interesting, and just in case, those running nodes should be considering this scenario as possible, if governments go full retard against Bitcoin it's definitely within the realm of possibility.

I hope this is not the way forward now, as I saw on the G20, they were not really against bitcoin, so there's still a little hope that they will prefer taxing the hell out of bitcoin instead of banning it and not gaining anything... If you want to tax something, than that thing should be legally accepted, in that case they just can't deny to run a full node... But we'll see...

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Quote from: pooya87 on March 23, 2018, 11:27:01 PM

Quote from: cellard on March 21, 2018, 07:39:33 PM

If they decide that owning the blockchain = owning illegal crap like CP, drugs sites etc, you may want to protect yourself against the fascist states running such laws.

if such laws were to exist for real then encrypting your drive still wouldn't change anything. it would be like saying after you bought drugs in the streets in front of a police station, come back home and hide it under you bed to protect yourself!

and remember this is not news, it is ancient. if they wanted to put any law there, they would have done it back in 2013.

Quote from: richman0201 on March 23, 2018, 09:12:57 PM

Node is software through which mining is done. So, while doing mining your personal computer should be encrypted. Otherwise, there will be possibilities to get your pc hacked.

everything that you said here is wrong.

Well, there is something called plausible deniability in which you can have several passwords that decrypt different things. I don't know how that works, but if I was running a node, I would be looking into that. There are also countries in which privacy is actually respected and they couldn't force you to decrypt, so if I was running a node, I would move in such a country. In the case a country is insane enough to legislate against the blockchain claiming it's illegal, I predict they would be insane enough to force you to decrypt too or else you would be indefinitely in jail tho.

I just find this possible Orwellian future interesting, and just in case, those running nodes should be considering this scenario as possible, if governments go full retard against Bitcoin it's definitely within the realm of possibility.

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Quote from: cellard on March 21, 2018, 07:39:33 PM

If they decide that owning the blockchain = owning illegal crap like CP, drugs sites etc, you may want to protect yourself against the fascist states running such laws.

if such laws were to exist for real then encrypting your drive still wouldn't change anything. it would be like saying after you bought drugs in the streets in front of a police station, come back home and hide it under you bed to protect yourself!

and remember this is not news, it is ancient. if they wanted to put any law there, they would have done it back in 2013.

Quote from: richman0201 on March 23, 2018, 09:12:57 PM

Node is software through which mining is done. So, while doing mining your personal computer should be encrypted. Otherwise, there will be possibilities to get your pc hacked.

everything that you said here is wrong.

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Should? Yes. People should be doing so many things, but are they doing to do them? No. People are keen on being lazy, they're ready to do as little as possible and that's how the world works. So people aren't going to end up encrypting their drives, gosh they barely remember their passwords for their bitcoin private keys -- you think they're going to end up remembering more for their drives.

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Node is software through which mining is done. So, while doing mining your personal computer should be encrypted. Otherwise, there will be possibilities to get your pc hacked.

cellard

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People asked me in a former thread why would you encrypt your drive if you were running a full node, read here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.32380007

Well, here is why:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/child-abuse-imagery-bitcoin-blockchain-illegal-content

These news are all over the internet. Of course, this is senseless FUD, but who knows what crazy laws they start passing to scare people away from Bitcoin. If they decide that owning the blockchain = owning illegal crap like CP, drugs sites etc, you may want to protect yourself against the fascist states running such laws.

I know, it's insane that they may actually do it, but who knows? if you are running a full node, I would definitely look into that.

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