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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Francois Armand‏ @fanf42 Mar 15

      Francois Armand Retweeted Howard Chu

      This is scary. Christine Lagarde casually speak about global index of people for "trust" with full identification and track records... The identified major risk is "anonymous transactions, like cash". They lust for total lost of privacy and #masssurveillance /cc @aralhttps://twitter.com/hyc_symas/status/973964583751815168 …

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      Howard Chu @hyc_symas
      IMF blog post https://blogs.imf.org/2018/03/13/addressing-the-dark-side-of-the-crypto-world/ … Bitcoin is neither crypto nor currency. It is a trap.
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    2. Cat Divers‏ @CatDivers Mar 15
      Replying to @fanf42 @aral

      How about cryptocommunities work with FATF etc. to build mechanisms to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing? Then governments can spend more time focusing on WHY people are engaging in illegal activities, corruption, terrorism etc and address root causes.

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    3. Francois Armand‏ @fanf42 Mar 15
      Replying to @CatDivers @aral

      There is interesting evolution in technology which could help with this problem (see for ex #zkstark white paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/046.pdf ) but I'm pretty sure we can't rely on politicians or big companies to put them up in place, b/c they directly conflict with their own goals

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    4. Cat Divers‏ @CatDivers Mar 15
      Replying to @fanf42 @aral

      Exactly. Make sure funds can't be laundered or used for illicit purposes - which we can all agree is bad. Do something about it.

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 15
      Replying to @CatDivers @fanf42

      The problem is that it’s impossible to guarantee that someone won’t do bad things with some object. Here’s a pen: thanks to it, we have all the literature in the world. Someone can also stab you in the eye with it. Yet if we outlaw pens, humanity loses. It’s a balance…

      5:30 AM - 15 Mar 2018
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        1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 15
          Replying to @aral @CatDivers @fanf42

          …To paraphrase @Snowden, the price of living as adults and with freedom is to accept a certain amount of risk.

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        1. Cat Divers‏ @CatDivers Mar 15
          Replying to @aral @fanf42

          With facts and shared values, actions can be judged. Maybe that eye that was stabbed was the secret on/off switch to a WMD.

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