I have to send money to someone using BitCoin and I want to remain fully anonymous to the recipient and to the public.
I have read a little about this subject and I've read that all transactions are public. So my questions are:
1. What information can be known to (1) the recipient, and to (2) the public?
2. I do not want my real name, address, email or phone number known to anyone (recipient and the public).
I am fine with anyone knowing the amount of the transaction.
So how can I stay as anonymous as possible? I want to jump through as little hoops as possible.
1. The only thing that the network will know is your bitcoin address and the receiver's bitcoin address.
2. There are no personal credentials attached when creating a bitcoin transaction all over the network. That is the advantage of bitcoin against the traditional wire transfer and money transfer services. Also, the transaction will get through within an hour (or most of the time, <30 minutes) and will be confirmed by the network to be available on spending.