Speaking Of Crypto

I talk with Riccardo Spagni also known as FluffyPony about concerns over Monero’s privacy model and why financial privacy is something healthy, rather than something that should be looked at as deceitful or nefarious. Our society believes in privacy, but it’s interesting to see where it’s accepted and where it’s challenged. Riccardo uses the analogy of going to a public restroom. We don’t argue with someone who wants to close the door when they’re going to the bathroom in a public place. “When you go to a public restroom, you go to the restroom, you close the door, and you don't go like oh, you know, that's a privacy enhancement. That's just natural. So like, a tool like Monero or any privacy enhancing tool really, is just about that same thing, being able to close the door when you're doing something private, like using the bathroom.” Some people think that if you want to hide your financial transactions, you must be doing something illegal. Isn’t financial privacy a right? If we flip things around and say t