"If you see a proposal for an electronic money system, check to see whether it has the ability to preserve the privacy of financial transactions the way paper money does today. If not, realize that the proposal is designed to harm, not help, individual privacy." β€” Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993) #digitalcash #privacy #warning

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FREEDOM 1 month ago
Hal saw it early: money without privacy isn’t money, it’s surveillance.
Woulf have been a Monero bro...
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"If you see a proposal for an electronic money system, check to see whether it has the ability to preserve the privacy of financial transactions the way paper money does today. If not, realize that the proposal is designed to harm, not help, individual privacy." β€” Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993) #digitalcash #privacy #warning
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