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You have ZERO financial privacy (links.hackliberty.org)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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and after casually admitting to dragnet mass surveillance, they had the audacity to later force a redaction. see below:

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There was at one point a couple of years ago a system called Open Bazaar which I think could be forked and brought back to life that could do something like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dude I pray everyday that someone will re open it. Such an amazing technology that was extremely under appreciated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

They kind of made all the wrong mistakes though. First of all, it was just too early for decentralized markets to really take off. Second of all, it was after the Bitcoin block size wars and they chose Bitcoin anyway, and third, they used venture capital funding. I think if somebody redid it with Monero and community funding instead of venture capital, it might actually work.