> Given pseudonymity not linked to any real assets (unlike a company), it's even easier. A pseudonym can be linked to a company with real assets. I don't follo

> Given pseudonymity not linked to any real assets (unlike a company), it's even easier. A pseudonym can be linked to a company with real assets. I don't follow you here. I even referred to such a situation above. As did the article. To answer your easy question, yes I can easily imagine scenarios where I might give a sizeable amount of money to someone that way. I have an online business and people in distant countries who don't actually know me give me sizeable amounts of money. They have my webpage which looks legit and demo software which works. There's no magic identity ingredient here to protect them. They'd move on and deal with someone else. There's a risk of course in everything. You certainly shouldn't risk money you can't afford to lose. Now as for giving out something like seed funding, this is where it actually does start to get interesting. As I also said above, and as the author of the article also says, one needs some kind of data trail to build confidence. No you certainly shouldn't implement your due dilligence in a way that can be easily hacked with ringers or plagiarized code.