An Open Letter to Coin Center: Introduction to a Fully Private Zero-Knowledge Proof Digital Currency

A cashless economy is a surveillance and control economy, a closed economy that only works for the privileged and politically acceptable. The decline of physical cash will inevitably harm the poorest among us most while eroding everyone’s privacy and autonomy. The Coin Center article “Without privacy, do we really want a digital dollar?” by Matthew Green & Peter Van Valkenburgh (1)?” was published by Coin Center. In response to this article, $ARRR is built on zk-SNARKs (zero-knowledge-succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge)