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> it muddles the morality of the situation

For most people, it does. I hold political free speech protections as sacrosanct. I do not have the same view towards dark money.

Putting my views and morality aside, the law treats commercial and non-commercial speech differently. Integrating payments lets the government subpoena records (and more) under AML/ATF law. Those laws are powerful and broadly supported.

Totally separately, if we take the position that money is speech, then fine. Why the hell not make a one-click “send wallet address” option for a variety of coins?



I think Signal is already very widely used today to transmit cryptocurrency payment addresses privately.




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