And ten years after, Bitcoin is at the heel of government, they are now enforcing exchanges for KYC and anything that can identify us.
The network itself is still quite good for privacy to some extent. It is impossible to expect the government would allow any asset or any exchange to accept users without any KYC, they're doing some business and need to hold some responsibility. The AML thing and so on is almost guaranteed to be mandatory when you use a centralized service. So, the solution would be don't use them. It's your call.
People should be anonymous if they are engaging or if they are doing transactions using cryptocurrency. Being anonymous doesn't mean that you're not supporting the use of cryptocurrency in your country, it is just for a privacy purposes that's why you need to hide your identity. The government are somehow benefiting the use of cryptocurrency and help the economy to grow and become stable.
Keeping your privacy is really necessary if there are platform that involves money. Although people are anonymously accessing it, we can still help promote the use of bitcoin in many platforms, like social media. There are a lot of ways that we can improve the mass adoption of cryptocurrency even if we are hiding ourselves because the true factor that will make people become interested in using bitcoin is its benefits in the market and economy.