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I get what youre trying to say franky, all im saying is that these services have no business flagging any privacy measure as suspicious in the first place, when they have no proof for anything beforehand. But im also aware this wont ever change in practice by itself.
Strongly agreed. But the problem cannot be fixed, if people can say that one coin is not like another.
Cypherpunks write code. Trust the maths. Preaching against coin taint will ultimately be as effective as preaching that big banks should be honest and decent. Bitcoin was invented on the cypherpunk principle that you don’t change the world just by talking: You change the world by creating something that fixes the problem, as an accomplished fact.
Agree. We still need some preaching tho, to get more people aware and stop using these services, but its more important to have working solutions. Genuine question: lets assume Bitcoin had perfect privacy, would it be possible that these services would introduce taint trough whitelisting?