[swensel]

I do think blockchain analysis will get more advanced over time and people who think they are anonymous now may have a rude awakening years down the line, but from what I can tell, you know crypto better than I do.

IMO, if folks wants privacy now they should actually use privacy focused crypto, but I also think the public nature of crypto is one of the interesting parts of it. I know there are privacy diehards and I can understand why, but I'm more interested about the technology in general.

[vmception]

yeah private cryptos like the Secret Network, Monero, or Tornado.cash contract on the Ethereum network all have a way for the user to provide audits. so what you find interesting about the technology is still available or even more available. Secret Network offloads necessary state information into Intel SGX chips that all the validators have. Tornado.cash generates state information client side and offloads it all client side and must be saved by the user, for now. Monero is much more complicated.

ultimately the only thing changing is the state's ability to flag electronic transactions, as there are no financial intermediaries for them to deputize. they didn't have that ability in the cash based system, and they temporarily got used to it in the electronic one. This is just a reversion to the mean.