Neeraj K. Agrawal
@NeerajKA
comms @coincenter—the cryptocurrency policy think tank | neeraj@coincenter.org | food account/retirement pasture: @neerajkafood
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Coin Center in Politico Decoded this morning.
Crypto is working its way into Wall Street. DC is embracing centralized issuers using blockchains. What’s lost in all this is the cypherpunk, private, self-sovereign original purpose of the technology. That’s what we fight for.
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Banks could slow stablecoin growth by paying savers more, BIS paper finds
The state has already demonstrated its ability to punish the developers of disfavored open source code.
It's not as simple as just saying "open is unstoppable." There are real people behind open source projects and they can be targeted for a chilling effect.
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My wife tells me muse is good and "for the girlies"
We are long, long, long overdue to reduce the amount of KYC we do as a society.
It doesn’t stop crime. It enables mass surveillance of the innocent by the tyrannical. And, perhaps most of all, it enriches hackers with troves of intimate personal data.
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Widespread adoption of privacy preserving technology is the only solution
This is completely wrong. There is no operator. That’s the point.
Seeing mutuals again. This must have been what it felt like when the Berlin Wall fell.
Reminder that the BSA is unconstitutional warrantless corporate surveillance of Americans that doesn’t even work
