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If a centralized authority can blacklist addresses, it is not actually decentralized.

Or rather, it's "decentralized transactions" in the same sense that Paypal users are decentralized when they initiate transactions. You ask, and Paypal decides whether to send the money.

In this case, you ask, and CENTRE decides whether to include the transaction in the blocks they mine. Same thing, But With Blockchainā„¢.

Of course, it's illegal to operate as an unlicensed money transmitter, and trading bearer bonds does not change that, so if it was truly decentralized they would be going to jail once the SEC got around to paying them a visit. People have been trying to get around such laws for ages and the law takes a very dim view of it.




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