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I'm not moralizing about inventing these things, I'm moralizing about using them. Inventing a nuclear weapon is not the same as using one.

BTW, I didn't know about Monero. Is there any substantive difference between it and ZCash?

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Yes. Monero is fairly distributed, not 20% for insiders to dump.

By the same token, sending the message to launch is not the same as sending a confidential message.

Confidential != anonymous. Anonymous invites bad behavior more than confidential does.

How are those different? They have equivalent meaning.

"Confidential" means the content of a communication is (intended to be) secret. "Anonymous" means the identity of the author is secret. Big difference.

When I send a friend an encrypted Signal, it's confidential i.e. its contents are secret. My friend knows it's from me. I am not anonymous.

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