@kazani: crypto doesn't care about privacy because incentives reward visibility

Crypto builders say they value privacy but keep building on architectures that structurally cannot provide it, because incentives reward visibility, speculation and network effects instead. The article argues that public blockchains were designed for transparency, auditability and censorship resistance, so privacy was at most an afterthought masked by pseudonymity. It says public global state acts as a surveillance tool, and that optional privacy amounts to no privacy, since users, developers and platforms will not adopt it without being forced to. It concludes that real change requires major apps, exchanges and wallets to adopt privacy by default and for developers to see adoption metrics for privacy products.