Cryptography *helps* people trust each other, but cryptocurrency *erodes* it. Precisely because it is immutable.
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What does that have to do with first amendment protections of open source development?
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Since when does the First Amendment come above the trust in the Constitution and laws that define it? If you create a "trustless" society -- the stated goal of cryptocurrency leaders -- then the First Amendment is just a piece of paper because it isn't a Solidity contract.
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At what point does it make sense to undermine the very legal framework that guarantees your freedom of speech?
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The First Amendment isn't a natural law or part of the cosmic order, it's a thingy written down by people 250 years ago that people could change if they liked.
Absolutist freedom of speech isn't a coherent ideology, because it condones its own destruction.
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It's hardly absolutist free speech to believe that publishing code to provide people with financial privacy is not violating any laws. Privacy itself is a right covered by multiple parts of the US constitution. Publicly publishing all your transactions is not a legal requirement.
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Doesn't make much sense to claim that when the topic is a port of the traditional Zcash technology to an Ethereum smart contract...
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The blockchain has a *PUBLIC* record of every transaction committed, of every Solidity contract executed.
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Y'all shouldn't be acting surprised that making everyone look like criminals by using a money laundering machine is making everyone look like criminals.
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Financial privacy is not money laundering. It's only money laundering if you're hiding the proceeds of a crime. That's how the term is defined and the laws are defined. People using it for other reasons were not violating any US laws.
Financial privacy is *automatic* if you use the legitimate, legally sanctioned banking system.
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There will ALWAYS be a trusted party in currency. ALWAYS. It might as well be the institution which is held to account through the will of the voting public.
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