When it comes to cryptocurrency, though, Meiklejohn makes clear that her position is more nuanced than a simple moral opposition to “surveillance” of the blockchain. She’s concerned about a world of total, granular financial tracking, where governments and corporations can see every individual purchase and payment that a person makes. But she frets, too, about a future where a technology like Zcash actually catches on and makes truly untraceable and anonymous finances possible, enabling the sort of perfect money laundering and untouchable black markets that some crypto-anarchists once believed
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