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 Thank you, and fair enough. I will always welcome dark money solutions, both on Bitcoin L2-L3 and in other forms such as Monero. I don't use Monero personally but I oppose any government attacks against it.

In a free market everyone must be free to use dark money as their money of choice. Cash is historically dark money and I support people using any tools of preference in order to preserve their property rights.

Bitcoin functioning as a neutral, global store of value that cannot be controlled by nation states will benefit Monero indirectly, as Monero cannot be exchanged for CBDCs but can be traded for Bitcoin. There is a potential for mutual benefit.

I wrote a text on the game theory of AML regulatioms + tainted coins, and why AML and taint regulations will fail.

Ironically, they will fail *quicker* the more coins are tainted, due to market dynamics:


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