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1/20 Twitter is all of a flutter because of FTX. It was an interesting episode, but there are other things happening recently that we should notice (besides other things such as war that are not recent news).

And let's take them for a positive spin.

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2/20 The surveillance apparatus is growing. Internet platforms have to report people in EU to their tax offices (in some countries even if they do not finish a trade) and they have to register and ask for permission. In some countries even if selling their old used phone.
3/20 EU is a great bureaucracy with fetish for central registries. After Germany introduced registry of packaging materials that everyone who ships to Germany has fill (which made me seriously laugh - and forced others remove Germany from shipping destinations)...
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The struggle for privacy is moral and political. There is a growing movement to bring crypto back to its cypherpunk and agorist roots.

Regulators, who worked in collusion with @SBF_FTX, will use privacy as a scapegoat.

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This is intended to distract from the true cause of the #FTX crisis. The very problem crypto was invented to solve.

An authoritarian financial system that is accountable to nobody.

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The basic message is this:

FTX was evil because it was opaque. Blockchains are good in so far as they are transparent.

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