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No we don't, the ability to have and hold value without monitoring is an inalienable right afa I'm concerned and i think everyone should hold that belief.
I agree. In addition privacy and anonymity are needed in order to ensure fungibility in crypto currencies, and fungibility is is a necessary requirement of money.
Then there is of course the adaptive blocksize in Monero which ensures that there is no arbitrary limit on the number of transactions per second.
People in this scene don't know how important and rare this is.