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Some people accept a chicken as payment, those are pretty untraceable... Nothing on the internet is anonymous

• pjc50 7y ago
  About that ... http://www.gs1greece.org/DNLfiles/srvNhelp/Meat_and_Poultry_guideline_pages.pdf http://www.gs1greece.org/DNLfiles/srvNhelp/Meat_and_Poultry_... Chickens are currently a bit small and shortlived for the full system that gets applied to cows, sheep, goats etc. In the UK, if for some reason you wanted to pay for something with a cow, you'd have to tell DEFRA. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-and-record-cattle-movements https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-and-record-cattle-movemen...
• raxxorrax 7y ago
  Most things on the internet actually are anonymous for the most practical purposes. I wouldn't know your name for example. The chicken example is nice and all, but why not just offer the same advantages as good old cash? Would be a far more appropriate comparison, don't you think? Most internet transactions are not anonymous of course, but there are options and I like to keep them. I regularly use non-anonymous transactions myself, but that is not the issue.
  • mercutio2 7y ago
    Not knowing how to map a digital identity to a meatspace identity is really not anonymity. It’s pseudonymity. And pseudonymity is good! We should allow for lots more of it. But anonymity is a different thing. It’s not clear to me that anonymity is worth trying to achieve, anymore; instead we should be fighting for judicial oversight of when pseudonymity can be pierced, combined with dramatically less anonymity for the misdeeds of the powerful.