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The choice is clear. It’s Zcash or communism. https://t.co/4sAG9WG0jA AI has changed the very nature of surveillance. Any scrap of information online can now be integrated, digested, and synthesized…by any state or stalker capable of running an AI model…to form a dossier more complete than anything the Soviets could ever dream of. There will be no single silver bullet. But anything you haven’t encrypted can and will be used against you. So, we just need to encrypt everything. And give the AI nothing. Nothing means zero. Zero knowledge. Communism is wealth seizure. But communism requires surveillance. Here’s how to see that. In 1918, in the midst of the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin gave an order to murder 100 nearby “kulaks.” By that he meant the kind of peasant who might have two cows. An under-appreciated aspect of Lenin’s order is that it required a list. That is: the communists couldn’t murder the kulaks without actually having a list of kulak names and locations. Moreover, the poor kulaks were tied to those locations, like farmers tend to be. They weren’t mobile, and couldn’t easily escape without losing everything. Today, neo-communism is rising once again. But the Internet could change the game. No full list, if we encrypt it. No fixed location, either. They can’t hit what they can’t see. https://t.co/PBZG1ndCzM