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> when you see how it allows criminal to move money anonymously.

Pseudonymously. Cash in a bag is anonymous and very widely used by criminals.

The other big difference is with the public ledger currencies the whole transaction history is visible, including to the authorities. Which is considerably more transparent than the current financial system with shell companies, tax havens etc etc.

If you're familiar with this, why reiterate the old canard?



Just use Monero or another crypto that also uses a ZKP algo to anonymize who sends what to whom.


IIRC most of these stories are about bitcoin payments. If they switch to monero, sure that's different.

But then we need to conduct the debate on the basis of different cryptos requiring different policy. Rather than saying crypto->criminal.




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