Quote from: LaudaM on August 05, 2015, 07:27:16 AM

Quote from: jbreher on August 05, 2015, 02:03:11 AM

Off with your head!* Bitcoin revolutionizes illegal actions -- does it hold your interest?
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If you cannot see any reason for anonymity other than illegal activities, then you have a very narrow scope of imagination.

Wrong. There's a reason for which Bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous and you obviously aren't seeing it. DASH/Monero/similar coins can't become legal and regulated properly because of their anonymous nature.
Also, stop misinterpreting my words.

Quote from: eizh on August 05, 2015, 04:46:17 AM

The point of hashing and the blockchain is attaining distributed consensus in spite of being open to the whole world. If it's for "internal applications", there's no need for a blockchain. An ordinary database will do and, as a bonus, won't be open to transaction analysis and network attacks like Bitcoin is.

Banks get hacked from time to time. I wonder where you came up with the assumption that their distributed ledgers will not be susceptible to attack?

Quote from: bitcart on July 22, 2015, 10:41:14 AM

I understand what you mean OP. "blockchain" has become a buzzword now and meaningless like the word "disruptive". I believe that people who are dismissive of bitcoin and favour blockchain probably know little about either of them.
I do believe that blockchain will outlive bitcoin though. there is more uses for it than a single currency.

Here is a nice article that calls the separation ludicrous. Instead of dismissing either, people should be cherishing both blockchain technology and Bitcoin.
Obviously, there are groups that are starting to become scared of Bitcoin as it might harm/destroy their corrupt businesses. However, I do agree that blockchain technology has much more potential than just being used in a currency.

I thought Monero wasn't able to be transparent but I remember reading Monero also had an inbuilt feature to make payments transparent if the user wanted. I think this is a good thing. I don't think Bitcoin the way it is now, would be a good idea to be mainstream, it needs to be more anonymous. Greg Maxwell has commented on this, he said he doesn't want to live in a world with a global transparent ledger, that's why he wants to introduce the confidential transactions BIP. I think he is right, and a global transparent ledger like we have now is NSAs wet dream. We need a more obfuscated way to deal with transactions in a standardized way.