Bitcoin and many other cryptos have been operating successfully for years, now. The programming problems have been overcome, the usage problems are gone, Crypto has become popular and is spreading. So, what is the one main problem left? The problem is government interference and regulation, and government continually wanting to control crypto. The solution, at least in the US, is to go completely private with a crypto.
Bitcoin and many altcons are quite private as it is. Regarding transactions, basically all one can see is the fact that a transaction occurred, the time, the amount, the addresses involved, and hash. This info isn't generally enough to pinpoint the people of the transaction, except under three basic circumstances:
1. If an exchange is used;
2. If side networks are used, like Lightning;
3. If the NSA tracks the Internet.
So, let's go the rest of the way and make a crypto that is even more private.
Bitcoin and the altcoins prove that crypto programming works. Bitcoin shouldn't have been in 'beta' for a long time, now. Since the programming works, lets develop an altcoin that is similar to Bitcoin Core, except in three basic areas:
1. Wording in the client that states that the transaction in process is private - a Private Membership Association - thereby taking it out of the public realm, and placing it in the private realm, where government has no authority over it;
2. Make all amounts transacted to be visible only to the transactors of any particular transaction;
3. Since we can trust the programming, and since it is open source, make the blockchain totals - coins created and current amount of coins mined - invisible to everyone; trust the programming. This goes for everyone including the miners.
Nobody needs to know the total number of coins transacted. The value of the coins could be set 1 to 1 with the USD. The coin is for trading privately, and not for hodling. There should be no maximum number of coins created as there is in Bitcoin and as there are in many altcoins. Let the blockchain programming do all this automatically and decentralized.
The setting up of wallets, and the offering of them to users, should also be a private thing, set up as a PMA... so that government keeps its hands off wallet makers and users.
What does anybody think? What changes or improvements should be made? What other ideas to go along with this?
Elizabeth Warren Wants The Police At Your Door In 2024 If You Have A Crypto-Wallet
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/elizabeth-warren-wants-police-your-door-2024-if-you-have-crypto-walletIn 2022, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren authored a bill that would require cryptocurrency wallet providers to comply with bank Anti-Money Laundering rules. Not crypto exchanges, mind you, but the wallets themselves. Kansas Senator Roger Marshall joined her on the proposal as a co-sponsor.
Sadly, Marshall betrayed the populist principles he ran on as a candidate.
The bill also betrayed the civil liberties and privacy tenets of progressivism that Warren espouses.
Warren and Marshall are planning to reignite that debate on Capitol Hill this summer and have enlisted law enforcement advocates to their cause. Prosecutors and federal agents doubtless support the bill, as they have every other bill that turns the one-way ratchet of financial surveillance. If they had their way, our personal bank account and credit card logins would rest on a central repository for the Department of Justice to access at will and without a warrant.
The Warren bill would require that anyone who designs a crypto wallet (a computer program designed to store the encryption code that helps to keep your crypto tokens secure) register as a money services business and, essentially, be regulated like a financial institution.
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