We all know the problem with a public ledger. Most of us living inside the crypto ecosystem can’t actually bring ourselves to say it.

But find a normie on the street, one with some knowledge of blockchain (good luck with that), and they’ll tell you straight. It’s public. A public ledger is public.

We’ve spent almost two decades trying to sell pork pies to vegans, trumpeting “public” as a virtue, when people actually crave privacy.

Out there in the real world, normies don’t see radical transparency. Many perceive insanity. They see data breaches. They are in no doubt that sharing a permanent and immutable record of every transaction they’ve ever made is utterly absurd.

You wouldn’t use a credit card if your neighbor could see…