> I'm skeptical we'll ever see an explicitly government-approved system with anonymity. Me too but I also think that it's increasingly not possible to scale u

> I'm skeptical we'll ever see an explicitly government-approved system with anonymity. Me too but I also think that it's increasingly not possible to scale up a governance system without anonymity. Suppose you have a list of incumbents that will pay you off to kill competition, and a list of new entities that affect those incumbents. That's a recipe for stasis and stagnation. Arguably this has already occurred in the medical arena on multiple levels. You need a 'fog of war' to allow innovation to occur. Otherwise you're depending on the goodwill, patriotism or honesty of officials, things that could dry up when you most need them. I suppose this could also be used as an argument for limited protectionism and incubation.