The Controversy of On-Chain Privacy: Monero, Tornado Cash, and Strk20

Privacy onchain has never just been a technical problem, it's more a political one. I've been in this space long enough to have watched the same cycle repeat itself: a team ships something that gives users genuine financial privacy, regulators decide it's a money laundering vehicle, exchanges delist it or the developer gets arrested, and the whole thing becomes a cautionary tale. Meanwhile the underlying need — the legitimate need for financial confidentiality — remains. It just waits for the n...