>>I don't think this is true at all. It's not true that anonymity increases the difficulty of enforcing certain classes of laws? I never said enforcement beco

>>I don't think this is true at all. It's not true that anonymity increases the difficulty of enforcing certain classes of laws? I never said enforcement becomes impossible or that the risk for those contravening the laws goes to 0%. >>Besides: coordinating activities requires identity. Either you have true anonymity, in which case trust is nigh impossible even with smart contracts With cryptography and immutable and persistent programs you can have trusted agreements without trusted parties. >>or you have pseudonymity with stable identities to allow reputations to form, meaning that once the identity is pierced all of that person's actions are traceable. It's possible that the pseudonym doesn't get linked to any real world identity, but yes pseudonymity is a much less effective defense against a tracker than anonymity.