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What is financial repression and how does Ergo help?
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Updated 1/1/2025

What is financial repression and how does Ergo help?

Financial repression includes capital controls, account freezes, surveillance, inflation, and restrictions on financial freedom. Governments use these tools to control citizens. Ergo provides escape: self-custody (no account freezes), privacy (no surveillance), censorship resistance (no blocked transactions), and sound money (no inflation).

  • Capital controls: Ergo is borderless
  • Account freezes: Self-custody, you control keys
  • Surveillance: Sigma Protocols for privacy
  • Inflation: Fixed supply, predictable emission
  • Censorship: PoW, no one can block transactions
  • KYC overreach: Permissionless access

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