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That’s true, I mean more for transactions on e.g. Craigslist or a farmers market.

• mrguyorama 4y ago
  Craigslist has logs of your conversations, which they will definitely share with police when asked (which likely happens all the time) and then the police can buy your phone location data from whoever and track what happened. Nothing is anonymous without extreme and CONSTANT effort. Any second you don't have perfect opsec, you should assume you are perfectly tracked. This is independent of any laws congress makes, because the policing apparatus does this itself. The only way to change this is make it illegal to track transactions for anyone, including police, but the second we do that we will see significant sanction busting, money laundering, spam, scams, online casinos, fraudulent businesses etc. All crime involves money at some point, and if you want to allow the police to fight that you have to allow money to be tracked. You don't get both options. I think making money untraced is not useful, and instead, we should be fighting for a government that is free enough to allow your entirely tracked transactions to do what you want. Buying some drugs or sex? Whatever, just pay your sales tax. The government knows what you do, that's the modern reality, so build a government that allows you to do things that don't harm others.