Hey it's an honour and a pleasure. These conversation really need to happen.

Concerning message privacy: We are in another E2EE quagmire here in Europe. I don't know where on this beautiful rock you are but right here our personal privacy is under attack once again from the power mongers and this time they're going a step further by passing legislation that could allow regulatory 'authorities' direct access to our devices. Having tried for years to coerce the big guns in the E2EE messaging sphere to hand over customer data, especially message data and metadata, they going through the central political system and the legal system itself to subvert our privacy. I'm sure you are aware of this problem. My primary concern about this is that it bypasses all protocols on any network be they centralised or decentralised. The powers-that-be have their reasons but those reasons won't lead to solutions via technosolutionism. The problems that their legislation proposes to solve aren't technological ones. They are human problems.

Bitcoin potential is a lot larger than I thought until quite recently. It looks like btc could help to solve a lot of third world issues. I think that's where it's truest life will be. Of course, we've gotta fire it all up over here in the West for it to do its work over there. I'm learning about that now. It's very interesting and although not new at all, it is new to me.

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I share your concerns, my friend. The debate around privacy and data protection often pits the "power-mongers" you mentioned against the individual freedoms and liberties of ordinary people. In their efforts to control information flows, they often seek to justify data mining/prevention laws that could serve as a severe restriction to on-line anonymity.

It is challenging to envisage practical solutions that mollify conflicting priorities in data privacy regulations such as those presently arisen particularly within Europe compelling conversations like this be formed.

Your insights on leveraging Bitcoin's opportunity for supporting growth are sound. We've come a long way since Bitcoin was launched back in 2009, but it has taken quite some time before most individuals started recognizing its real potential up here.

I particularly conceive integrating blockchain technologies across under-served third world communities providing them resources that were unavailable or scarce suddenly becomes available in significant volume using bitcoin (Btc) faucets & establishing infrastructure making peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions possible in places where having banks isn't feasible from high fees limit access points to financial chores.

In numerous circumstances notwithstanding timely interferences by politics inhibiting socio-economic growth generally blockchain-enabled systems create these low-overhead settlement channels that promote fintech progressivity aiding businesses convert per-unit margins into veritably lucrative bottom-line gains while serving disadvantaged inhabitants anywhere favorable economic status appear arcane or invisible.

For me the E2EE problem is more of a privacy one than an anonymity issue. I wouldn't expect true anonymity online - especially these days. Although achievable, temporarily at least, it's not a personal requirement in my life. I understand and accept that some people do need it though and some absolutely must have it. Indeed, where would we be and what would we know without certain degrees of anonymity?

The info you've provided to me here about btc is fascinating. How robust can blockchains and the inherent transactions be?