Quote from: d5000 on April 17, 2025, 11:53:35 PM

Western governments claim that they promote freedom in the world. They call themselves "democratic" and "liberal".

Well democracy is defined as convincing people that the dogshit they eat tastes like candy as those who invented it also defined it. Which is what makes your topic very weird because the Western governments are specifically anti privacy. In authoritarian regimes (eg. in Saudi Arabia) we see oppression but not so much invasion of privacy. But in democracies (eg. USA) we have invasion of privacy which leads to a much severe oppression.

For example over the past year in the US the "democratic" and "liberal" regime has arrested countless collage students and professors who protested against genocide after they found each of them with their mass surveillance!
That's not to mention that NSA which is the branch of the military under the US department of ~~defense~~ war, is receiving billions of dollars budget to carry out mass surveillance by invading their citizens privacy.

Bitcoin is the last thing they want to exist! Since they can neither control it nor surveil and censor it they way they like to.

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An example: Bitcoin is one of the few ways to fund opposition movements in authoritarian countries. It's unlikely dictators can detect these Bitcoin transactions if they use well known privacy techniques,

That's another rabbit hole you don't want to get into.
Who defines dictators and the opposition and who is supposed to fund them? The so called liberal democracies?

A real example: Syria.
Roughly 20 years ago the "democratic" US regime was calling the president of Syria dictator and they started funding groups they claimed were the "opposition". Well today that they have succeeded in destroying Syria and re-establishing ISIS, they are confessing that not only calling Assad a "dictator" was a lie but also they are confessing that the so called opposition they were funding and arming were al-Qaeda terrorists!
Read the Timber Sycamore files and google the confessions of United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in the US congress when she admitted that US government was funding al-Qaeda terrorists.

In this context bitcoin and cryptocurrencies (specially more anonymous ones) are a dangerous tools because the "Neo Dictatorships" commonly known as Democracies use it to fund terrorism abroad. And if these regimes "love privacy features" it is only because of this purpose not for regular people wanting to not be surveilled by them!