A lot (if not almost all) emphasis on financial privacy in the bitcoin community is focused on privacy-from-government as the core concern. For good reason. Particularly those using bitcoin to avoid p...
There was a very similar discourse when law enforcement was attempting to criminalize cryptography in communications, in the 90s and early 2000s, or to backdoor it. The really obvious use cases were state actor issues, but there were a lot of real and important use cases in threats from bad actors in the private sector.