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Right, but its just so stupid! People think they are being clever or funny. Its as clever as going into a police station and admitting your crimes. Cool joke!

Its the world we have made. We make a whole generation of people not care for privacy (FB), and then we are surprised when people assume their finances are not private?

We are all collectively to blame for such privacy failures. The users/victims are simply that, victims of our troubled privacy-less future.

I dont know why people even defend MZ, with arguments like, "he was young" -- he still is young. "People grow and mature" -- yup not seeing it. "People change" -- also dont see it. In fact, the MZ of today is just as creepy (if not more) than sketchy Mark 'Dumb Fucks" Zuckerberg.

Typically, the only defenders of MZ are FB employees. I guess they indoctrinate their employees to their Godhead well!

True, but its a shame the authorities have no sense of humor.

Who would use Venmo? When I see people buying drugs (see vicemo.com), I shake my head at the stupidity of it all.

I have been asked multiple times by people who want to pay me, and I have flatted refused because of there approach to financial privacy. I try to get them to stop using it also, for their own privacy. Lucky we have other options -- I usually get them into cryptocurrency instead. Hey -- its also open by default, but at least its hard to correlate an address to a person.

You have a responsibility to your users, be they EU or not. The fact you consider "they keep sending it to me" means that you are not considering the whole privacy issue. This data is not yours to do with as you please. Yes they send it to you -- but you are listening, You are the active party here. There is a duty to protect your users data.

Bitcoin.

Hyperbitcoinization incoming!

In all seriousness, the attention from institutions, growing maturity of custodial solutions and good monetary policy are colliding. Nocoiners, watch out!

Very nice discussion paper that outlines the taxonomy of breaking encryption. The outcome is six classes of attacks, mitigations and legal implications.

I understand you are a student, and you really need a job, but working for an unethical company is not worth it, for your sanity and the world.

You didn't study for years just to end up making the world a worse place.

This group identity philosophy is very destructive. Build your own identity first before you sacrifice autonomy to groupthink.

I think this is a very short sighted prediction. You could have said this about bitcoin in 2010, and you would have been wrong then too.