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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin should never become fully anonymous- don't fool yourself
by
jseverson
on 02/06/2020, 06:03:35 UTC
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Otherwise, you could actually develop a fully anonymous currency which is going to be banned and will never ever reach full adoption for being such or try to tone down the feature a bit and perhaps gain acceptance.

Well these already exist, so we're all good in that front. Plenty of people use both Bitcoin along with Monero/Dash. I don't think I ever see anyone push for full anonymity in Bitcoin either -- they mostly ask why it isn't, considering its reputation brought about by pop culture.

Just to be clear, I don't mind whether Bitcoin is fully anonymous or not. What I take issue with is going out of our way just to please the government. It works out in this case because Bitcoin was never meant to be fully anonymous to begin with, but if that had been in the development roadmap and was scrapped just because of regulatory threats, then it would become a problem.

So yeah, I understand the OP's reasoning and what he said certainly made sense, but IMO the reason why Bitcoin should never be anonymous is because it doesn't have to, nor was it ever intended to be; dodging regulatory measures just happened to line up conveniently with that, not vice-versa.