David Chaum, finding a use for Big Brother after all.(Photographer: Handout/Getty Images Europe)In the chaos surrounding the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's empire, it's easy to lose sight of what has died in this year's crypto carnage and what lives on.The biggest casualty is "anarcho-capitalism," championed by engineer Timothy May in the 1990s as cyberspace interactions unconstrained by external regulation, taxation or interference - in short, an absence of government.
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