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5. Crypto Privacy

Slava Gomzin1  
(1)
Frisco, TX, USA
 

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

—J. Robert Oppenheimer

Did you know that the US government can legally seize your cash without any court order and charges against you? I didn’t until I read an article1 in The Washington Post about a former Marine pulled over by police when traveling from Texas to California to see his daughters. The police searched his car and found ...

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