On: Tech experts urge Washington to resist crypto industry’s influence

[eternalban]

> Is this arguing both for and against the need for financial privacy at the same time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayman_Islands

No. Like all things connected to real power, the subtext is that the sovereign alone can setup "privacy-focused" banking for 'special' interests. Anyone else who attempts it is a rebel and may be drawn and quartered. Long live the lizard queen.