Quote from: mezza550 on March 04, 2014, 05:44:42 PM

Quote from: BADecker on March 04, 2014, 05:20:26 PM

Or, you could be like the NSA.

Or would doing something like this invalidate some crucial part of what makes bitcoin relevant in the first place?

One needs to be very knowledgeable, very intelligent, even very wise to determine which things COULDN'T be done.

If there EVER was any fear of NSA tracking, how about going the MaidSafe route? Maybe not with MaidSafe itself (though I don't know anything wrong about them), but at least with their idea.

Implementing Maidsafe wouldn't necessarily eliminate the standard Internet. At least not for a long time. But it would start to make tracking more difficult. Seems to me that things like Bitcoin would be the easiest things to track in the face of MaidSafe.

The best benefit we would derive from complete anonymity would be that people would start to take responsibility for their own lives. Thieves might win temporarily, but in the end, they would lose their position as trustworthy. This is the problem right now with governments and banks. They appear trustworthy, but we are seeing that they are not and have almost never been.

The things we need for good trustworthiness are the things being done by Bitquick, LocalBitcoins, Bitcoin-otc and the escrow like that from Blockchain.info. That's all we need, plus the common sense gained from personal experience, or from mentor guidance.