Opinion: Consensys and Infura illustrate what a dark future for crypto might look like — with centralized infrastructure devoid of privacy.
Suppose Infura holds users’ IP and ETH addresses. In that case, it can quickly locate the user’s home and tie it back to all the ETH assets and on-chain transactions users have made. That is quite scary.That raised a fascinating debate among the crypto community. While the Ethereum blockchain provides censorship resistance, API providers such as Infura, which provide access to the Ethereum blockchain, are not obligated contradictorily to be censorship resistant.
It is true that anyone can send Bitcoin to anyone — even if the police or government doesn’t approve. However, if BTC were not censorship-resistant, those authorities could seize or block that Bitcoin. Crypto was created with censorship resistance in mind because we need and cherish our right to privacy.
Monitoring from the public is required, as done by the two whistleblowers via their Twitter accounts.
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