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Did you take a moment to understand why they are doing this with a coin, or are you just anti-crypto-coins altogether?

> Did you take a moment to understand why they are doing this with a coin, or are you just anti-crypto-coins altogether?

They're promoting a security [1]. If a company can't bother with the law, I distrust their claims around privacy.

Also, if you're doing on-device AI, you have a natural business model: sell the device. (Maybe also subscriptions.) Adding in a token creates conflicts of interests.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_co...

Care to explain it to us? There's nothing obvious I can see as to why they're using coins, and based on the recent stories about the SEC investigating ICOs, skepticism seems warranted.

Oh, I don't know, I have just heard of these coins myself. But based on OPs response it is hard to tell if they just dislike cryptocoins altogether, or if they read about the specifics and disliked the specifics of this one cryptocoin.

You are missing the fact they are taking about privacy.

I don't see how privacy and cryptocoins are related. Some cryptocoins can enable privacy, whereas some can make privacy more difficult. My question is if OP has a problem with the specifics of this cryptocoin or if they just dislike all cryptocoins.

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