> I'm afraid this kind of legitimacy will never be obtained for Bitcoin - not because it's impossible, but because many (most?) of Bitcoin's strongest proponent

> I'm afraid this kind of legitimacy will never be obtained for Bitcoin - not because it's impossible, but because many (most?) of Bitcoin's strongest proponents are pushing for the exact opposite goal. Not sure about this. We have a public ledger which will hold information about any transaction ever made. You get access to my wallets and you have my financial life right there. There are mixers of course, but I'm not 100% if you can't use algorithms to trace back the total amount of bitcoins coming out of a mixer or other approachers. I'd like to read some technical papers how one can track or hide bitcoin transactions... I mean this could be used as a tool for the exact opposite reason: Say every political party should accept money only through known/identified wallet via bitcoin. Only transaction that are ID-id should get accepted. Same with taxes, etc.