David Chaum, finding a use for Big Brother after all.
(Bloomberg Opinion) --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.