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Money is speech, but financial transactions are the primary communications which actually affect the world, and the only kind which governments have gone comple
by rdl 8y ago
Money is speech, but financial transactions are the primary communications which actually affect the world, and the only kind which governments have gone completely insane to try to restrict at any scale historically, as well as the only kind which were particularly challenging to accomplish with non cryptographic means, but at a distance, in 1988-1992 (and on to today.). All other communications can be a subset of financial transactions.
- garmaine 8y ago> All other communications can be a subset of financial transactions. Sending personal letters, or photos of a dissident demonstration are financial transactions?
- rdl 8y agoIf you can send a payment instruction, you could send a 0-value transaction textual message. Ability to do true anonymous electronic cash implies the ability to do everything else.
- tromp 8y agoGrin leaves no room for adding any publicly visible message to your transaction.
- rkowal 8y agoI'd say if u can send Grin via email/mobile easily cause of no scripting and it is truly digital cash that is private censoroship-resistant/decentralized p2p distributed ledger then this is big
- Winslow_Strong 8y agoBeam is incorporating a BBS system that presumably could be used for secure communications as well (ow how could it be secure for setting up a tx?). Won't Grin have to do something similar that would support secure messaging in order for users to build txs in a secure and easy way?