> Good times, when you were able to restrict information export through airport security... Don't forget Paypal and Wikileaks! Oh my bad, that was Bitcoin talk. That's not a currency anymore, but an asset. Like gold.

All of that is irrelevant to the context at hand. How good, trade-worthy, or the value of a cryptocurrency is not directly tied to the amount of computation work done to mine the coin. All different combinations exist.

> Then why exactly do I need a darknet service for that, instead of running it locally?

For the same reason most people are completely capable of running a modest PostgreSQL server with Nginx or a few docker containers on their hardware, yet they pay for the service of other people doing it. The same is true for backup, storage, and a plethora of other services they gladly fork over a few dollars for.

It being over the darknet is not a techncial requirement, it's an economic / market requirement.

> Yeah, businesses are totally gonna buy tons of crypto to pay for outlawed services from China to stay competitive

They already gladly look the other way and do shady things to procure data.

> Instead of running models locally as you suggested above.

Weird, when they tried to do that the DNS resolution for the domain name failed. Guess they'll fire up their VPN to start grabbing the model, etc. Maybe just by AICoin and move on?

> And of course the government will just fold in face of this crypto enabled libertarian hell.

For about 15 years you have been able to go into a .onion and grab whatever you what on a DNM. Many have been taken down. You can currently go on a .onion domain and grab whatever you want.

> I mean utopia. Can't beat math, amirite?

They seem able to catch a DNM every once in a while, but there are always a dozen or so viable and active alternatives.

> There will be no more taxes, everyone will be free, armed and get as much fentanyl as they want

I'm fairly certain the United States is getting as much fentanyl as it wants already. You can walk to some place in any city and get it in pill form quickly and cheaply. How much involvement the DNMs have in that right now I don't know. In the past some DNMs have policed that and some provided "quality testing" to verify the lack of presence of fentanyl in other substances.