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Another way to withhold money from the poor. Excellent thinking. What's next? A little execution every now and then to keep them under control?

Another way to protect your money from being stolen, yes.

Having money is not violent, so I don't know why you bring up executions. The violent ones here are the governments.

> The violent ones here are the governments.

Because they tax? That's violence?

Maybe, governments are on the offensive against privacy coins like Monero. I believe Australia outlawed it. I wouldn't be surprised if increasingly harsh penalties were imposed as their popularity grows

I was just reading today the IRS has an outstanding bounty of 625,000 for anyone that can find a privacy vulnerability in Monero, not that anyone is gonna sell it to the US Government for that little when you can get so much more on the dark net/black market

The thing about decentralized things though... they tend to be nigh impossible to effectively ban.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8806723