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135 - Crypto Wars 2.0 with Zooko

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Zuko, Is Zcash Legal?

Zuko: We want some level of privacy, just like we have it on kind of the internet where we have encrypted the ability to encrypt our communications. Are you optimistic that we will get there with cryptocurrency having spent years in the space? And if so, what is the best path towards getting there? Yeah. I think this is the lesson from the previous crypto wars, not the L1s, but the attempt by the US government to ban effectively, to ban the internet for being a secure thing into institute their own US government backdoor alternative to the internet in the 1990s. That made it clear that this is too important to the economy and to our lives to keep trying to delay it

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