Today the future of Bitcoin is among the most widely discussed topics in the cryptocommunity. However, the fierce debate induced by hard forks and block size disagreements seem to have put other important aspects of cryptocurrency, like user privacy, to the back burner. The issue of personal privacy, though important, is but a part of a bigger problem, which is the intrusion of governments in private lives of people. Fight against terrorism funding or money laundering are possibly the most frequent causes cited to justify their fight with data encryption.
There are lots of opinions regarding counteracting governments as an outwardly legitimate limiter of personal freedom. The debate includes, among other parties, cryptoanarchists, who call for using new technologies to change the very character of state regulation, as well as the notions of trust and reputation…
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