One thing cryptocurrencies bring us is is computed trust. A good blockchain will deliver an accurate representation of the current state of trust between entit

One thing cryptocurrencies bring us is is computed trust. A good blockchain will deliver an accurate representation of the current state of trust between entities. With privacy, you enjoy the lack of that state of trust, or what I call 'inverse trust'. When you enjoy privacy, you trust I don't know anything about you. It feels like privacy advocates gloss over the actual cost of implementing good privacy. Given it is related to trust, and computed trust costs something, one would assume that privacy is something you should be willing to pay for. The correlation is that if someone wants to remove your ability to remain private, they should have to pay an equal or greater value to do so.