I would have thought that if this was a government backed project it would include the ability "to know" - whether that be the persone, the amount or the "where

I would have thought that if this was a government backed project it would include the ability "to know" - whether that be the persone, the amount or the "where" af transactions. It would be pretty dumb not to include that aspect, but as far as I know, these are exactly the things bitcoin prevents. There would be very few people with peer-to-peer networking skils the programming knowledge to put that together and thhe mathematical knowledge to create the algorithm and the economics knowledge to understand how to control inflation. But there are still weaknesses in the process.