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Re:Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure gr... by Dma54rhs on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @05:21AM (#34801997)
I agree with the premise but in practice something like Bitcoin would be perfect for a police state. Easily trackable, just have to block the endpoints to repress people, forever history.
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Re:Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure gr... by Quindecillion on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @06:23AM (#34802420)
There are several ways to obfuscate transaction history on origins, such as coinjoins or simply opening a few private Lightning Network channels and pushing sats a couple of hops through them to unidentified end addresses.
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