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I don't think you can defend this kind of privacy in a court. They are not impartial.

This is not really about crypto, or tornado cash. I think it's more about ownership and surveillance. The only solution is to innovate in the area of evasion. Since there is no middle ground amenable to the ones who make the laws in their own interests.

We can just look at wikileaks, panama papers and so on. Money laundering and embezzlement is much more pervasive and rapaciously damaging in the highest levels of "power". Wealth "inequality" is an oligopoly of concentrated power and wealth.

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I think this is exactly the kind of privacy you can defend in court.

The reason we don't have privacy is because technology has been centralized and it's easy to pressure providers to give up user's privacy.

The idea that parties have financial privacy between each other is actually the default. I can hand you physical cash. This is normal.

That's not because of some special provision that "allows" for cash to be private. That's just how it's always been done.

If you do work for me, and I hand you a gold coin, you don't have to do something special to make sure the government can track the item of value. You just mark it down on your taxes as income.

This is how things had been done until maybe the last 20 years or so, when 9/11 greatly expanded the government surveillance requirements on financial businesses.

There's a mountain of law to support private property transfer.

> This is not really about crypto, or tornado cash. I think it's more about ownership and surveillance. The only solution is to innovate in the area of evasion. Since there is no middle ground amenable to the ones who make the laws in their own interests.

I’m genuinely unsure what your point is?

Are you saying that because the rich and powerful are destroying society by evading taxes and weakening the fundamental infrastructure of our civilization, the rest of us should have crypto so we can be in on the loot?

> I don't think you can defend this kind of privacy in a court. They are not impartial.

Big claim there.

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