> its only valid use cases were illicit transactions
What makes this argument different than the "I don't have anything to hide" anti-privacy argument?
What makes this argument different than the "I don't have anything to hide" anti-privacy argument?
Crypto currency is a wasteful, destructive, expensive and innefficient technology that has few benefits except facilitating crimes like tax evasion, money laundering, financing terrorism and purchasing drugs.
What are the others, in the specific context of this conversation (which is privacy from the government, not from random other citizens)?
This is perhaps the primary reason that the right of privacy even exists.
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin directly mitigate (if not outright prevent) that risk.