Quote from: DannyHamilton on July 02, 2014, 02:07:18 AM

Quote from: franky1 on July 02, 2014, 01:28:39 AM

the government own all birth certificates and social security numbers. so lets let anyone have that info.. yea? government owns the tax office. so lets make all that info public yea?
if you know someone in the military doing special ops. lets reveal his location and missions publicly, lets even put a live feed of his location on googlemaps, yea?

or do you prefer a private life and have bitcoin as a financial system where you can put funds into and it not be publicly linked to you. do you really want the government to set precedent by making it standard practice to link bitcoin addresses to peoples public info.. and then simply shout it out publicly.

or do you prefer atleast some privacy?

what other people pay for their bitcoins is there business.

Now I remember why I had you on "ignore".

Your strawmen aren't impressing me.

If the government starts selling birth certificates, or social security numbers, then I would expect them to announce what the price will be.

If they are going to sell military secrets, then I expect the amount that they collect from that sale to be made public as well.

If they are going to sell bitcoins, then I expect them to announce how much they acquired.

I don't care who bought them, but I think its reasonable to expect the government to make public the government's revenues.

I said absolutely nothing about "link bitcoin addresses to peoples public info.. and then simply shout it out publicly", and your implying is doesn't make it so. Try to focus on the words. They actually have meaning beyond what your hysteria wants you to believe.

There are certain expectations of privacy when people engage in certain financial transactions.

A large market participant has an incentive to keep his buying price secret from the market so the price cannot be manipulated around his actions. If a bidder is able to not have the value of his bid be made public then he is able to bid at a higher price, allowing the government to yield additional monies from the auction.

While the winning bid amounts would be public interest, the assets being sold were not purchased with taxpayer funds so the public does not have a legitimate "need to know" the price of the winning bids as it is not their funds at stake.

All of your bashing of members of the PD signature campaign, and stating the fact that you are ignoring members of the PD signature campaign (you are clearly not even ignoring the quoted member as your quoted his original post that you would not be able to see if you were ignoring him) are off topic. It is against forum policy to post off topic. I kindly request that to stop this.