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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.
A man resorts to dialectics only when he has no other means to hand.... It can be only the last defence of those who have no other weapons.
Thanks for your elaborate reply, nullius!
So you are convinced that it has to be solved on a technical level. I mean; I'm not against having better on-chain privacy, such as in Monero - effectively
removing the very
ability to distinguish UTXOs, however I'm not sure like you that it is
needed.
In fiat world, people accept bank notes without checking their history through its serial number and they aren't checking them for the anecdotal traces of cocaine (could also check for blood, etc.) - every fiat bank note is not the same, but is universally treated as such, around the world. Whenever they aren't, people get very upset, too, however not so in Bitcoin. I don't really understand why.
I'm looking forward to your project / proposal and willing to help if I can!
That talk of Adam Back is new to me, I really appreciate his work in the field in general so I will watch it later.