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Not really, And I don't see why you put all Western governments in the same bag. There is a clear difference between the USA and Europe today. Besides the fact that traditionally in the USA they have been more pro-freedom, while Europe is more invasive of privacy in pursuit of security.
Besides the USA intelligence community of course.
They also happen to be one of the main pillars behind wrecking crypto anonymity for everyone, in addition to screwing up a lot of things that have nothing to do with crypto (e.g. everything in the Patriot Act).
Well, that's enough for me. I don't want to turn this thread into Politics and Society.
Original archived Re: Western governments should love Bitcoin's privacy features, not fight them
Scraped on 20/04/2025, 17:28:11 UTC
Not really, And I don't see why you put all Western governments in the same bag. There is a clear difference between the USA and Europe today. Besides the fact that traditionally in the USA they have been more pro-freedom, while Europe is more invasive of privacy in pursuit of security.
Besides the USA intelligence community of course. those types were always of the "privacy for me but not for thee" crowd.
They also happen to be one of the main pillars behind wrecking crypto anonymity for everyone, in addition to screwing up a lot of things that have nothing to do with crypto (e.g. everything in the Patriot Act).
Well, that's enough for me. I don't want to turn this thread into Politics and Society.