Quote from: robertdivaio on July 27, 2014, 03:22:26 PM

Quote from: ruleland on July 27, 2014, 09:24:01 AM

Quote from: AllAltNews on July 27, 2014, 04:30:39 AM

There's actually a merchant coin in development, which I cannot say what the coin is because they have not launched yet, that would disagree with your disagreement. They actually believe merchants would prefer to not go anon. However the verdict is as good as any for all we know, we just have to ask the merchants themselves.

Do you have a use case where non anonymous transactions would be advantageous over anonymous transaction?

Anonymous transaction will never be implemented by merchants because they cannot prove said transactions thus cannot be taxable.
Period.

People need to understand that anon coins are just useless for real world merchants, they can only work on the darknet

I would have to agree here. Full anonymity with electronic payments serve very little real world function.

The only reasons I can think of, as to why a person or entity would want or require FULL anonymity in a monetary exchange would be:

- Avoiding Taxes (Illegal)
- Purchasing Illegal Items such as drugs, weapons, etc. (Illegal)
- Funding regimes or making contributions to organizations who perform illegal activities. (Illegal)

Am I missing anything here? Because Bitcoin, paired to a hush mail or gmail account is honestly "anonymous" enough for 99.999% of most users. The CIA, FBI, or NSA are not going to, nor are they interested in "tracking" small BTC payments from person to person for ordinary purchases, and no one without the tools those organizations have exclusive access to are unlikely to be able to track down a BTC payment to a specific person.

If you ask me the entire "Anon" concept is just an over-hyped gimmick. Make a BTC payment to me. I doubt that ANYONE here would actually be able to track that payment to my actual identity.

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Strato