"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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True. On the other side many times it is also important to have a proof of payment. When I pay for a good, it is good to have a good proof, that I payed for it.
Hal saw it early: money without privacy isnβt money, itβs surveillance.
Woulf have been a Monero bro...
"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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