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Re:Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain (2017) by miracle2k on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:54PM (#27838896)
Child pornographers everyday use encrypted messaging and Tor to get away with their crimes. Meanwhile, normal users have no practical benefit from either.

Why is this different?

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Re:Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain (2017) by plywoodtrees on Thursday July 15, 2021 @07:33PM (#27851342)
That's a really question that I have considered before, and that deserves a long answer.

One part of it is:

As both a matter of norms and law, we expect and desire more public scrutiny of financial transactions than of speech. In particular, various taxes mean that a large fraction of financial transactions cannot and should not be private. Conversely the great majority of 1 on 1 conversations raise no legal or regulatory issues.

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