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> Financial privacy is definitely a right.

Unless you prove it is, it's not. It's not encoded in the UN's human rights charter, nor in pretty much any legal system out there.

Governments should protect you from other individuals accessing your financials except the government itself, but that's it.

> Cryptography allows individuals to use the force of mathematical law, superior to all other law, to enforce their privacy rights.

I am absolutely against the use of "cryptography" (which by the way any transaction system uses) and cryptocurrencies as there is one and only one purpose for such a thing: tax evasion and money laundering. There's literally no other purpose except far fetched arguments.



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