by Nicholas Anthony, Activist Post:

The rise of cryptocurrencies has made a new generation of people aware of the need for financial privacy reform in America. It’s not only citizens who have taken notice, and not only calls for positive change that have been proposed. Government officials have slowly recognized that cryptocurrencies challenge the assumption that only governments are fit to issue money, and defy the 50-year-old financial surveillance regime born out of the Bank Secrecy Act.