[alskdjflaskjdhf]

It's not just "authoritarian governments" but rather "governments" in general, unless you consider the EU government to be authoritarian. And circumventing the law has always been the prime use case for crypto since the beginning. I think everyone has always agreed that it's great for that.

[rvz]

> And circumventing the law has always been the prime use case for crypto since the beginning. I think everyone has always agreed that it's great for that.

Absolutely. Even the criminals, scammers and extremists using Signal and its E2EE also use it to communicate with each other whilst sending/receiving funds via a private cryptocurrency called 'MobileCoin' which uses an encrypted blockchain and all transactions are untraceable and scrambled. Even they would agree.

Got to thank Moxie and his friends for creating a great tool used and adored by many criminal masterminds all around the world. /s

[nine_k]

You know, security either works for everyone including undesirables, or for no one. There's no such thing as technology or mathematics that only works for good guys; this is where sufficiently advanced technology and magic diverge.

[glerk]

Preventing individuals from moving their wealth across borders makes a government authoritarian for me. It doesn't matter which government it is.