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we have fully anonymous, working cryptocurrencies now (monero is the best example). You cannot link transactions nor determine the balance of a public key. with
by 45h34jh53k4j 10y ago
we have fully anonymous, working cryptocurrencies now (monero is the best example). You cannot link transactions nor determine the balance of a public key. without the private key and transaction key no court can seize.
we have anonymous darknet markets, where you can buy many controlled substances, in visibility of law enforcement.
My point is that you can't uninvent these things. They have already changed society, and moralizing on how we shouldn't invent these things has gone way past into heavy production.
Use the technology, dont use it; this is really the only choice you can make. Their existence wont go away.
- lisper 10y agoI'm not moralizing about inventing these things, I'm moralizing about using them. Inventing a nuclear weapon is not the same as using one. BTW, I didn't know about Monero. Is there any substantive difference between it and ZCash?
- hulahoof 10y agoBy the same token, sending the message to launch is not the same as sending a confidential message.
- lisper 10y agoConfidential != anonymous. Anonymous invites bad behavior more than confidential does.
- stale2002 10y agoHow are those different? They have equivalent meaning.
- JumpCrisscross 10y agoWhen I send a friend an encrypted Signal, it's confidential i.e. its contents are secret. My friend knows it's from me. I am not anonymous.
- lisper 10y ago"Confidential" means the content of a communication is (intended to be) secret. "Anonymous" means the identity of the author is secret. Big difference.
- aminorex 10y agoYes. Monero is fairly distributed, not 20% for insiders to dump.