>"Many people I know believe cryptocurrency to be anonymous. What they don't realize is blockchain is a public ledger." "Public" and "anonymous" are orthogonal

>"Many people I know believe cryptocurrency to be anonymous. What they don't realize is blockchain is a public ledger." "Public" and "anonymous" are orthogonal concepts. They are not mutually exclusive. There are many examples of this from letters to the editor, graffiti, donations etc. The fact that something has both the property of being public and anonymous does not make it "pseudo anonymous."