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[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (7 children)

...and, hear me out, that will be perfect for keeping messages untraceable by the government. Every single of those 200,000 computers will have full copies of all the messages ever transmitted, unencrypted, but they'll never be able to tell who wrote them and who they were for.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

privacy or secrecy from the government isn't a goal of Bitcoin - the protocol doesn't even use encryption.

the goal is protection from (government or other) control

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