No, it's a blockchain 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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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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News to me that we all live under governments which are held to the will of the voting public. The majority of the public deciding that sex workers, trans people, recreational drugs, etc. should be criminalized also doesn't make it right. Plenty of laws are clearly immoral.
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Whataboutism. We're talking about Tornado Cash aiding a country that really, really wants to nuke Japan.
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Is it okay to create a product whose PRIMARY USE is to enable anonymous transfers of large sums of money between criminal and/or omnicidal enterprises?
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That isn't the primary use of it and the statistics from analysis companies indicate that's not at all true. You're just arguing disingenuously.
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