Bitcoin Q&A: Privacy Experimentation and the Luxury of Laziness

What are your thoughts on privacy and fungibility in Bitcoin? We shouldn't only want privacy when it is too late. Stagnation in this area may be worse than reckless experimentation. Will people sacrifice privacy for good user experience? There is a difference between George Orwell's and Aldous Huxley's versions of totalitarianism. As long as we have the ability to opt-out, laziness is a luxury you have when they're not shooting at you.