Quote from: Nescio on June 28, 2011, 12:07:20 AM

Quote from: casascius on June 26, 2011, 02:28:18 AM

Quote from: TheVirus on June 26, 2011, 02:20:42 AM

You run this for several weeks, months, years, and keep tabs on how much money is in the paper. You get bored and decide to take it all and move to another country. We have your thumbprint, woopty-fucking-doo.

What would I do with the 25-employee software business I happen to be running in South Jordan, Utah? Pack it up? All so I can steal somebody's bitcoins? This would make sense if I were a transient, but a little bit of Google and you'll see I'm not.

The payoff could be (much) larger than whatever the business is worth. Maybe you'd do it for the thrill. Maybe you would need a large/quick anonymous sum, which liquidating the business would not fulfill. Maybe you got into an accident that changed your personality. Maybe someone took your family hostage and made you do it. Whatever, there are a ton of reasons why this isn't something I'd bet my life on. And fingerprints can be lifted incredibly easily if you are as easy to find as you say.

That and it's not incredibly hard to create a fake online persona. The whole point of Bitcoin is to keep it peer-to-peer. Why would I put all my trust in a single source that isn't backed by anything?