Do you know how many exchange accounts of regular people were closed or restricted because this fake concept called "taint"?
Mine did. And it definitely sucks.
I wish everyone stopped seeing authorities and institutions or corporations as Saints. They are definitely not. See what happened to many Russians since the war started? They have been a clear, big target of attacks. And let us put the truth out there, there are at least a few Russians in the world who have been attacked without a real reason and without deserving it just because they were part of that nation.
Now just think about it. Let us put it the following way. Your country starts a war. You flee the country in disagreement. All other countries turn against your nation and Chainalysis provides Wasabi a list of transactions and UTXO's suspected of coming from or being part of your nation. Now you are a targeted attack, a labeled suspect or criminal, a blacklisted entity even if you have never truly been part of this entire thing and never wanted to be.
As investigative journalists and politicians it becomes even easier to become a target. Bitcoin is supposed to set you free without discrimination. Without making differences. By starting to make differences we are moving a thousand miles away from its fundamentals!
Whether we like it or not. Censorship is censorship, you can not tell me censoring transactions is not censorship. We can not have complete freedom unless we accept that there is a thing to compromise. Either we accept any and all valid transactions or we compromise the freedom itself.
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Regards,
PrivacyG