Still though, if you're even somewhat worried about protecting your anonymity, why would you use your full name? It might seem that being one "Alice Smith" amo

Still though, if you're even somewhat worried about protecting your anonymity, why would you use your full name? It might seem that being one "Alice Smith" amongst thousands is pretty good anonymity, but cross-reference that against people with the expertise and ability required to implement something like Bitcoin, and I bet that list gets really short really fast. For the record, I do still think it was sleazy and unnecessary to publish his car's license plate and a photo of his house, (even though they would have been easy enough for people to figure out based on the other personal information unearthed in the article).