Folks here are helping me narrow down what I don’t like about crypto. I see the argument that it is a way to freely move currency even in the face of authoritarian governments. 

I guess on the one hand, I just don’t believe that governments can’t find a way to crack down on it. All the crying from crypto folks about the tyrannical SEC suggests governments still do matter. 

But more importantly, I think it’s a much better use of time and energy to organize and fight to stop those authoritarian governments from existing in the first place. I see so many brilliant people spending so much time on this thing that is literally separate from reality (it’s right there in the name crypto) when that energy could be put to more fruitful use. Anyway, no final conclusions, just some evolving thoughts.

Interestingly people making the anti-authoritarian money argument to Ryan are working on casino projects and not privacy products

building creator payments @ unitedmasters.com. investing.

building nosocial.me.
did first real world asset financing with @makerdao.

we’re due for a new wave of privacy products and protocols

Too risky, you risk going to jail for a very long time and a very expensive defence is required. Take a look at the tornado devs and look at how much and how hard they have to fundraise for their defence.