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.
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Financial privacy is *automatic* if you use the legitimate, legally sanctioned banking system.
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How exactly do you have financial privacy when your bank can see and sell your financial data along with their employees being able to easily view it? You also depend on them to secure your data. Privacy from governments is perfectly valid too. Governments are not benevolent.
It's called... privacy law?
If they're not good enough, ask your local Congressperson to make them tougher.
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In a democracy, Governments ARE the people. Nothing more and nothing less.
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