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Most of what you wrote presumes anonymity. In long lived immutable digital systems, guess what, that doesn't exist. Talk to your actual scientist cousins, cry
by oblio 3y ago
Most of what you wrote presumes anonymity.
In long lived immutable digital systems, guess what, that doesn't exist.
Talk to your actual scientist cousins, crypto-graphers.
If we're at the "totalitarian government" stage, "easily readable immutable data source" is EXACTLY what they'd dream of.
- ETH_start 3y agoEven without anonymity, it raises the cost for the government to enforce broad restrictions, because the chokepoints—which are intermediaries like financial institutions—are gone. In any case, anonymity is a gradient. It's a question of how much resources a state has to expend to track a user, and that value can be increased with better privacy technology, so that the state has to eschew broad-based restrictions on mutually voluntary interactions and focus its investigative resources on only the most dangerous actors, who engage in genuinely predatory behavior (murderers, thieves, etc).