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Bitcoin is 'vulnerable' to this. The most common use is to put financial transactions on Bitcoin, but you can put whatever binary data you want. Famously the genesis block[1] includes a newspaper headline to prove it was created after a specific day.

It's possible to place illegal content onto the Bitcoin blockchain.

[1] - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block



> It's possible to place illegal content onto the Bitcoin blockchain.

I wonder if Bitcoin already has illegal content in it.


Yes, both Bitcoin and Ethereum have very illegal content. So far, nobody cared about this aspect.


So anyone running a mining node could potentially be prosecuted for distributing illegal content? That definitely seems like it will be a massive issue in the future.




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