Agreed. One of the many wonderful elegant qualities of Bitcoin. It's actually a very public way of transferring value between endpoints but in a way that lets

Agreed. One of the many wonderful elegant qualities of Bitcoin. It's actually a very public way of transferring value between endpoints but in a way that lets you "tune" the tradeoffs to just the right mix between privacy/anonymity and full-disclosure, to taste. You can't do that with government/bank/fiat systems.