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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why are so many people Anti-Bitcoin?
by
phillipsjk
on 01/11/2011, 05:02:10 UTC

Bitcoins are not anonymous.

Sorry, as long as I keep hearing this, I will repeat... "Yes they can be". Otherwise, great speech! 8D

I essentially stopped reading here:
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As an example, let us consider a software developer. ... He can ... protect the Intellectual Property with encryption

DRM can never and has never worked. You have to defeat "cause and effect" to force DRM to work. This oversight tells me you have not thought enough about the steps required to foster annonymity.

Using TOR to separate your identities is not enough. You have to ensure that each of your (virtual) machines have a different (or at least generic) software configuration as well. Advertisers (like facebook and Google) are storing an increasing amount of data. I would caution you not to underestimate potential advances in data de-annonymization in the comming years.