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Nick Anthony
@EconWithNick

Research Fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation. Covering CBDCs, financial privacy, and cryptocurrency. Opinions are my own.

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The Deutsche Bundesbank says it needs a CBDC because Visa and Mastercard "could be turned off upon instruction" by the US government.

Sounds like what they really need is Bitcoin.
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In a room full of law enforcement, I was the only person to raise my hand when former FinCEN director Bill Fox asked if anyone "actually believes" bad people deserve privacy.

I said I believe the Constitution applies to every American, and the Fourth Amendment provides the framework for breaking through the right to privacy when an investigation justifies it.

Sadly, that seemed to fall on deaf ears.
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FreedomTech · 2w
Law enforcement are bad guys.
Globe99 · 2w
Wow that takes balls! Problem with that framing is who gets to decide on "bad"?
FreedomTech · 2w
The 4th Amendment doesn't grant the right to privacy. The unalienable right to privacy comes from God. All the 4th does is tell government that shall not infringe in that right. Governments and law enforcement agencies have no authority over your unalienable right to privacy. All they can do is inf...
Kajoozie Maflingo · 2w
that's cause you're wasting your time talking to these people instead of building tools to make their jobs impossible.
Liberthea Anadara · 2w
I'd of then asked so if it doesn't benefit your lie , it's of no value. That being said I don't comply to your dismissal of my views on privacy. Therefore I don't comply either to the privacy violations of this federal laws and governments.
Vaeringr ☦ · 2w
"Bad guys" is a subjective term and can be warped to be applied to anyone. Unfortunately I've noticed in recent years that law enforcement often uses the term very liberally to justify abuse.
Bitpower · 2w
Do “bad people” deserve to breathe oxygen?
Melissa · 2w
The livelihood of law enforcement depends on there being bad people. The more “bad” people they can find the stronger their job security will be. And sadly, most members of law enforcement aren’t aligned with truth so they depend on the puppeteers to tell them who is bad or good. I wouldn’t ...
47 · 2w
rough
AU9913 · 2w
Followed. Clearly they believe it too or we'd have dozens of Epstein clients arrested.
FreedomTech · 2w
The law enforcement guys ARE the bad guys.
Frank Corva · 3w
😂