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It's not a "back door" it's a front door for taxation. It says so on the tin!


Whatever you want to call it, it explicitly invades people's privacy. It would only gain adoption if the alternative, which is digital cash, is prohibited, in which case privacy in private financial interactions would be criminalized and we would be subject to warrantless mass surveillance.


Bitcoin publishes every transaction anyone has ever done in plaintext.


There are blockchains that don't do that.


This is false.


Can you elaborate? Because I'm certain it's not.




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