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Malone: Governments will mandate backdoors in all blockchain technology

Mike Malone · 1667 Top Tech Journalist Predicts We'll All Be Unemployed, Blockchain Takeover, Less Taxes! · Feb 16, 2020 · at 18:03

Author Mike Malone predicts that national governments will enforce surveillance access on blockchain networks to maintain state sovereignty and taxation.

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“And we're going to build it into blockchain. I don't know how with all those, all that security and everything else, but they're going to demand it. Because if you don't control that information or have access to that information, you lose your national sovereignty. And if anything, we're becoming more nationalized right now and less global. So the government's going to do it. They have to.”

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