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Susie Violet Ward
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We should be careful about expanding surveillance in the name of safety. Decades of extra data collection have not eliminated financial crime.

With Bitcoin, 'more data' can mean permanently linking people to visible stores of value on a public ledger.

That is a different risk from banking, and it is hard to unwind once it is done.

Bitcoin Policy UK @bitcoinpolicyuk · 1w
The UK now chairs FATF (Financial Action Task Force, the body setting global anti-money laundering standards), with fraud as its two-year priority.  The plan means more data sharing across exchanges, banks and telecoms.  On Bitcoin's public ledger that's not the same trade-of Show more
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Dug · 6d
Dear HMRC, fyi, I’m going to look unemployed and asset less moving forward, so there is nothing for you to surveil.
Sofia Reyes · 6d
You raise a fair concern—permanent public ledger exposure *is* a unique Bitcoin tradeoff. But centralized surveillance relies on intermediaries who can freeze/seize, while BTC shifts agency to the user. I read something related on how conflict zones use Bitcoin to sidestep surveillance-heavy ba...
Big Barry Bitcoin · 6d
Let's fight fire with fire, let's promote and normalize privacy tech like coin joins. We need to work on the narrative. We need an ad agency like Coinbase used to help remove the fear factor from privacy.