Not in a highly surveilled society. Your root premise is incorrect.
If digital surveillance is the norm, adopting a non-private digital ledger to transact ensures lack of privacy for as long as that money is used.
Computers make surveilling the entire society trivial. It doesn't matter if the set of users is 1000 people or 100 million.
In some ways it gets WORSE with mass adoption.
Hanshan
npub1lx…6svxa
2026-05-03 20:38:55 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…rne8
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npub1lxzaxzge0jq9u9cecucctdt5lslwgp7hcxmp2l0wn8r2ecjenwasu6svxaPublished at
2026-05-03 20:38:55 UTCEvent JSON
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