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I would argue that anonymity and privacy are equally positive things and both necessary for a functional society. Anonymity facilitates the exposing of bad act

I would argue that anonymity and privacy are equally positive things and both necessary for a functional society. Anonymity facilitates the exposing of bad actors and systemic failures in the bureaucracies we've created to help and protect each other, i.e., whistle blowers. I would also argue think ransomware is a good thing. Although it's annoying, it's providing just enough of a shift in incentives for people to start taking data security seriously. Ransomware makes everyones data more secure in the long run.

lisper 10y ago
> Anonymity facilitates the exposing of bad actors No, it doesn't actually. What are called "anonymous sources" in the press are actually not anonymous in the sense that ZCash makes them anonymous: their identity is known to the journalist who publishes the story. The identity of the source is kept confidential by the journalist. This mechanism is an important check on the credibility of the source. True anonymity leads as much to vendetta-driven libel as it does to legitimate whistle-blowing. There's a reason that serious people get their information from the Register and the Washington Post instead of 4chan. Also, anonymity in general and an anonymous currency are not the same thing.