After each mass shooting in America, U.S. representatives whose constituents and campaign funders are card-carrying members of the National Rifle Association are quick to say, “Don’t blame guns for all the gun violence in America!” It would be very rich indeed if these same people banned blockchain technology because of the crimes some people might commit on it. Technology does not have agency. It does not want for anything or have an inclination one way or the other. Money is a technology, after all. When someone robs a bank, we don’t blame the money that sits in the vault for the robbery.
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