"the cryptocurrency space has its origins in projects like Chaumian Ecash, which put the preservation of digital financial privacy front and center"

"Privacy gives you the freedom to live your life in a way that best suits your personal goals and needs, without having to constantly balance every action between "the private game" (your own needs) and "the public game" (how all kinds of other people, intermediated by all kinds of mechanisms including social media cascades, commercial incentives, politics, institutions, etc, will perceive and respond to your behavior)

Without privacy,everythingbecomes a constant battle of "what will other people (and bots) think of what I'm doing" - powerful people, companies, and peers, people today and in the future. With privacy, we can preserve a balance. Today, that balance is being rapidly eroded, especially in the physical realm, and the default path of modern techno-capitalism, with its hunger for business models that find ways to capture value from users without asking them to explicitly pay for things, is to erode it further (even into highly sensitive domains like, eventually, our own minds)."