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Bitcoin provides a number of great features, but anonymity is not one of them.
by politician 14y ago
Bitcoin provides a number of great features, but anonymity is not one of them.
- w1ntermute 14y agoBy that token, neither is cash money - every bill has a unique serial number.
- DougBTX 14y agoEach "bill" in bitcoin includes a full transaction history, which gets shared with every other bitcoin user. It's quite different knowing that a dollar bill got from A to B, vs a bitcoin which tells you exactly how it travelled from A to B.
- anonymfus 14y agoWhere I can see analogue of http://blockchain.info/new-transactions http://blockchain.info/new-transactions for cash?
- sounds 14y agoPlease explain. Bitcoins are inherently anonymous, it's just hard to convert between bitcoins and real-world goods/services/currency without identifying a wallet. This is not a social problem (can't be solved with technology, even though lots of tech tries). This is a technical problem (advances in privacy services can make bitcoins more easy to use safely).
- politician 14y agoBitcoins are certainly not "inherently" anonymous if it requires the use of external mixing services to sufficiently hide one's activities in the block chain.