jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Investors sue Treasury Department for blacklisting crypto platform Tornado Cash
Same old pro-mass surveillance arguments, we need it because there are terrorists and pedos
jim_kreggis's comments
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Investors sue Treasury Department for blacklisting crypto platform Tornado Cash
Your employer has your salary on record, so having financial privacy in no way prevents taxes being collected. Likewise you trade stocks through a broker, who knows how much you have in your brokerage account.
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Assassination Politics (1997)
Yeah, there's no way this would lead to minimal government, the exact opposite would happen.
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks
China would just step in
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Defending Privacy in Crypto
"people are happy to give up their rights because the people they dont like will be less profitable"
This is the real reason people get so irrationally mad about crypto. There's no difference between the importance of encrypted communication and encrypted transactions, except that there's money involved. There's many people using web3 hype and bullshit as a grift, and many (most) people who see crypto as a speculative bubble they can get in on but neither of these things change the fact that it's the only trustless form of digitial payment we have. Terrorists can kill thousands of people, governments can kill millions, so I'm much more worried about one than the other.
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Defending Privacy in Crypto
I agree, the Tornado cash situation just shows the importance of making privacy a primary consideration in the currency itself
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Defending Privacy in Crypto
Do you want to actually reply or just be snarky?
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Defending Privacy in Crypto
The point is crypto has potential to be used whether regulators like it or not. Regulators will do everything they can to prevent this of course, but it at least means we have the potential to transact privately vs. not having any chance at all.
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Defending Privacy in Crypto
The only way for crypto to win is to implement privacy and anonymity in a way regulators cannot prevent, such as privacy coins. Btc and Eth relying on mixers is a flaw which regulators will exploit to their advantage.
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Defending Privacy in Crypto
My point is that it's pointless to be idealistic about how things should be, what matter is how they are. Why would a government which seeks to track its citizens every move keep cash around, when digital money suits their purposes better, and the vast majority of people pay using their phone or card anyway? When that happens, you have 0 way of transacting with anyone without the government watching over your shoulder.
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Defending Privacy in Crypto
And what are you going to do if governments get rid of it? You have no recourse, only privacy coins like monero offer some.
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Defending Privacy in Crypto
Having to use digital currency for everything with no privacy and complete government control is going to be amazing, you're right!
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: The YC Summer 2022 Batch
One described themselves as "Grubhub but for gay sex"? Just bizarre...
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife
Cheers brother
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife
Shame it doesn't change URL for different tools, would be useful for bookmarking
jim_kreggis | 3 years ago | on: Texas bans 10 banks, 348 investment funds over fossil fuel policies
For what
page 1