Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of the individual

Article is actually a lengthy pitch for YAC$ (yet another cryptocurrency)<p>It&#x27;s another anonymized coin that appears to have fancy chat&#x2F;marketplace support in the main wallet application as a flagship feature.

&gt; Earlier this year the Brazilian government used the courts to block WhatsApp for 72 hours as it seems they did not like being unable to peer into the private communications of their citizens. This happened again just a couple of weeks ago and it seems what the government cannot control should be blocked or even banned.<p>It&#x27;s very hypocritical when an American criticises foreign &quot;corrupt, oppressive&quot; governments for &quot;peering into private communications&quot; by using <i>public</i> legal means against US corporations, whereas the US government has done exactly the same thing (using legal and illegal means) but you just didn&#x27;t know about it (because most Internet companies are based in the US).<p>[I&#x27;m not sure that the author is an American, but there are undoubtedly many Americans that share this attitude.]

Domain: decentralize.today. Published on: Medium.<p>Seriously, it isn&#x27;t THAT hard to at least host your blog outside the centralized disservices. You could argue that reach is negatively affected. It probably is. But if everybody (and that includes the outlets promoting decentralization) just swallows the bait, how can things ever change? (Wo)man up!

The first half lists lots of state actions against encryption, the second part advertises the shadow project, a blockchain based anonymous currency, communication and commerce platform: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shadowproject&#x2F;shadow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shadowproject&#x2F;shadow</a>

Has anyone of these activists ever considered the appalling inability of average person to manage private keys properly? Whether it is Bitcoin, pgp, whatever else, using private keys on own hardware where noone else has access to is absolute prerequisite of successful decentralized crypto. Yet the privkeys keep getting leaked,stolen,lost(including Zimmermann&#x27;s pgp key),cracked(due to generation by buggy software) without any good solution in sight.

The right title should be: how to loose all or most your money by using crypto currencies

I worry about specific implementations of software for decentralisation. You can ban or block an app, arrest it&#x27;s creators, but it&#x27;s a lot harder to ban a protocol that has a number of different implementations. Maybe there isn&#x27;t enough resources for that, maybe encryption and privacy tech is hard enough that more than one implementation isn&#x27;t possible at this moment, but I think it should be a goal.

The article mentions shadow cash. I&#x27;ve never heard of it, but why would someone use it over bitcoin or perhaps monero?

Printed money is decentralized and anonymous in the cash form.

Not only on contents on global sites, China did lots of censorship on the local sites content.