Quote from: thedarklight on February 24, 2014, 12:10:22 AM

Quote from: sharpshooter on February 23, 2014, 11:33:52 PM

The gist of crypto currency is to remain anonymous. Tying coins or accounts to people's name and addresses? I don't see this going far sorry.

You don't have the exclusive right to determine the gist of a technology.

That is like saying the Internet was invented for only for a specific purpose, just so that college students and hackers can have access to confidential information. You are saying that everyone else must conform to the wishes and needs of others. Cryptocurrency is about far more than just anonymity, and you're missing out on the truly disruptive aspects.

Once a technology is invented then it becomes a tool which anyone can make use of. The option will exist for people who want to form or join a community. To have a community you must have an identity and while you can be pseudo-anonymous you must prove that you are in fact a human individual if you expect to be able to vote and have citizenship.

Anonymity and citizenship don't mesh well together. While you can have a virtual community you still need to register to vote. You still need a reputation which must be reviewed. For the purpose of basic income you must join the community and if the community is willing to give you the dividend anonymously that is their option but I doubt most communities will do that.

It's also human nature to form communities. So it is both an economic necessity and human nature that people join groups of like minded people.

If you want a completely anonymous cryptocurrency there will be plenty of coins for that. If you want a basic income dividend, join a decentralized autonomous community. If you're given citizenship then you will have dividend paying shares which will provide you a basic income for life provided that your citizenship isn't revoked.

And of course there will be some communities which will be more open than others and which will accept anybody. This model is better than charity because it does not ask anyone to make donations. It's better than taxing people to pay for it because no one has to lose anything for other people to gain something.

It works by giving everyone in the community a share in the capital assets the community holds. It's like a virtual sovereign wealth fund. As a member you get a stream of dividends to your addresses but you cannot join without being backround checked because if the community does not filter it could be over run by criminals, or just infiltrated and destroyed by black flag.

You could easily have this and anonymity still with stuff like zero-knowledge proofs of whatever, CoinJoin, or Zerocoin. The real question is still how you verify individuals in a decentralized manner.