travel rule is an abomination, but so is every other rule concerning financial activity.

Limits on cash payments? KYC requirements? And all other AML bullshit.

We should just use all of it as fuel to build more black market technologies, get more people to start participating in free economies and generally become more free.

Their need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. It requires constant effort and expansion. Their authority is brittle, they are tightening the grip because they are afraid.

First gift of cryptography was privacy. Second gift of cryptography was bitcoin. And with those two we can break the shackles of tyranny and free ourselves for good.