Re: “Can the state withstand a full-blown Bitcoin offensive?”

[Karl]

On 1/25/21, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:43:18 -0500
> Karl <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> BITCOIN IS NOT ANONYMOUS BUT CRYPTOCURRENCY CAN INDEED BE ANONYMOUS.
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> 	that's better although the claim 'CRYPTOCURRENCY CAN INDEED BE ANONYMOUS'
> is still dubious

It's a research war between anonymity and deanonymisation.  Both of
these problems are solvable, but we don't want to get to the point
that either solution is truly discovered or widely used.

We need to reduce surveillance research.  Maybe that means not
threatening it, to stop stimulating the desire for it, and acting in
line with it to prevent it.