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 Important Discussion and I agree, that it is not good practice for a bitcoiner to rely on chainalysis for argumentative purposes as this is rather a dead end road. If bitcoin is the uncensorable, permissionless, immutable, neutral, global monetary network, then it has to be accepted as such without compromise. This means there will be two sides of the medal, as it can be used by the supressed as demonstrated by gladstein and HRF, but it can also be used by nefarious actors like terrorists groups. If we accept permissionless transactions, the government agencies will have to put in there own POW to curtail terrorists actions without relaying on monitoring transaction ledgers. This however would be a paradigm shift, which current governments will probably not accept. I would like to get your view on the permissionless nature and the implications it has, with regards on the neutrality of whoever is using it.