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privacy wars are here and apparently the robots are better at using crypto than most founders Erik Voorhees came on and basically said: > the state will always spy > AI labs are too comfy censoring you > agents may be crypto’s real users Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:16 Erik’s...

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