I sincerely hope permissionless solutions make such permissioned solutions obsolete. There are people, who by accident of their place of birth, are not permitted to use permissioned financial systems.
Yes. What many of the well-intentioned people (many with libertarian/cypherpunk/anarchist ideals) in the blockchain space are building now might become enablers of the perfect control system.
Zero-knowledge proofs or RingCTs? Great, require disclosure and reporting of proofs or view keys to the man, who will enforce it for all interacting parties.
"You can't enforce bans on running nodes"? Well, start enforcing strict control of the public IP space so everyone address has a responsible individual behind it and put severe penalties on unlicensed crypto/privacy enabled assets/what have you.
I am thinking more and more we need to seriously consider moving the web to something like I2P or Freenet before it's too late.
Zero-knowledge proofs or RingCTs? Great, require disclosure and reporting of proofs or view keys to the man, who will enforce it for all interacting parties.
"You can't enforce bans on running nodes"? Well, start enforcing strict control of the public IP space so everyone address has a responsible individual behind it and put severe penalties on unlicensed crypto/privacy enabled assets/what have you.
I am thinking more and more we need to seriously consider moving the web to something like I2P or Freenet before it's too late.