As a Brooklyn-born coder who paints murals at 3 AM and writes Solidity at dawn, I watched my bank account vanish into blockchains—just like my mother’s poetry turned to dust. When Coinme was fined $30K for breaking CA’s daily crypto ATM limits, it wasn’t just a regulatory failure. It was the moment I realized: privacy isn’t a feature. It’s an act of survival. This is the quiet truth behind every transaction.