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Re:Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire by wlll on Saturday May 14, 2022 @08:44AM (#31377399)
You mean like monero (https://ciphertrace.com/enhanced-monero-tracing/) or something else perhaps? Are you sure it's private?

Private or not, which country are you in that would penalise you if you donated to Wikileaks?

Ultimately though, there's a decent argument for /not/ allowing completely anonymous money transfers as the list of organisations that you'd be penalised for donating to probably has a pretty strong overlap with the list of organisations that society as a whole, through it's government, has decided we don't want to receive money.

Crypto /might/ allow you to make an end-run around this system, but do we want it to, and even if we do, is it worth an entire country's electricity usage?

Re:Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire by sumedh on Saturday May 14, 2022 @09:03AM (#31377530)
> Private or not, which country are you in that would penalise you if you donated to Wikileaks?

Didnt US companies stop payments to Wikileaks because they exposed the US govt, atleast with crypto Wikileaks and others can bypass US payments systems.

Re:Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire by wlll on Saturday May 14, 2022 @09:46AM (#31377878)
Wasn't this because the US government blacklisted it? Being a tool for evading laws that we don't find convenient doesn't seem like a great reason for existing.
Re:Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire by sumedh on Sunday May 15, 2022 @07:36AM (#31386921)
Which law did Wikileaks break?