A defense of anonymity in payments by @jerrybrito in a policy briefing:
"The Case for Electronic Cash"
(PDF download link below abstract)https://coincenter.org/entry/the-case-for-electronic-cash …
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Long term privacy is unattainable without an active military. Ultimately, I always arrive back to the states’ monopoly over violence as a last hurdle that private and privacy oriented money will have a hard time overcoming. I might be wrong. What are your thoughts?
Wrong, there is plenty of cryptography that nobody including militaries can break.
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As a side note, I believe militaries/governments/aggressor organizations may not be able to break good cryptography/privacy measures, but they can break key people and organizations. That’s an attack vector that shouldn’t be disregarded/underestimated regarding private money.
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Its an asymmetric attack. Can target individuals (with probable cause) but not blanket surveillance. That's as it should be and as it always was.
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Important differentiation. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
@aantonop.
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I surely hope I am wrong! :)
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