On P2P payments from their FAQ: “While the payment appears to be directly between wallets, technically the operation is intermediated by the payment service provider which will typically be legally required to identify the recipient of the funds before allowing the transaction to complete.”

How about, no? How about me paying €50 to a guy for fixing my bike doesn’t need to be intermediated and KYCed? How about it’s none of the government’s business how I split the bill at dinner with friends? This level of surveillance is madness, especially coming from an app that touts “privacy” as a feature.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Also … That implies you don’t like freedom, democracy, feeding refugees, medical care for the exploited, and over throwing dictatorships.

    Everything has a trade-off, to only enable systems that have absolute central control, you invite central control of everything