🚨If you see a proposal for an electronic money system, check to see whether it has the ability to preserve the privacy of financial transactions the way paper money does today. If not, realize that the proposal is designed to harm, not help, individual privacy.

Hal Finney, 1993

Hal Finney's article, 'Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash,' published in EXTROPY #10 (1993), is a crucial read, especially relevant today given recent SEC and DOJ actions and the ongoing war on #privacy.