Comment on U.S. Government Removes Tornado Cash Sanctions

• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, but if the US government sends money into your bank account, they can just as easily take it back.

  forbes.com/…/trump-administration-takes-back-80-m…

  Crypto was designed to be a peer-to-peer method for immutable transactions. Crypto transactions are irreversible, even for governments.

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t be stupid. If the government wants to get your crypto, they will.

    It’s all a matter of whether they see the effort as being worth it.

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    • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I shouldn’t feed the troll, but there is a teachable moment here.

      Crypto transactions that are direct on a Blockchain, by design, are immutable. Once they are validated in a block, and future blocks are validated on top of that, it is impossible for any entity to change that history unless they control a majority of the validation power of that network. Yes, even the NSA can’t do it. It’s math.

      Yes, if the government wants your crypto, it will get it. But the only way to do that is to obtain your private keys. It cannot reverse a transaction, nor reverse-engineer your private keys from a transaction. Yes, not even the NSA can do it. It’s math.

      Governments do have other tools at their disposal. But those tools must center on obtaining the key. They cannot “hack” it any other way.

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      • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s fascinating how you assume that anyone who has a critical outlook on crypto has no clue what they are talking about.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      you have no idea whatsoever what your talking

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• Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We are not talking about your bank account, we are talking about public transactions on public ledgers

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s the point. You can send people a transaction via a bank account and they won’t know how much you have.

    This who privacy thing is a roleplay thing for you.

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    • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But the bank will. You prove my point

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