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by troupo 846 days ago
> “Enforcing laws” with regard to what? Censoring transactions? Freezing accounts?

Fraud. Transaction rollbacks. Consumer protection laws.

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Those should be applied at a higher layer than the base one, and the vast majority of people should be using custodial services if they have access.

A much smaller fraction should be using open source and audited hardware wallets as well as offline paper wallets.

People will have the option to shoot their foot off with real, direct control, yes. That option or ‘genie’ doesn’t go back in the bottle, not permanently.