[Nursie]

>But that doesn't require that we eliminate privacy and anonymity

But it seriously limits any sort of appeal it may have to regular folk who don't really care about that anonymity.

In the case of Liberty Reserve and e-gold, just their mention becomes a huge red flag for any legitimate activity. Cryptocurrency is basically there too, particularly as it's a worse system in pretty much every other way.

[mirimir]

Well, Liberty Reserve allowed me to pay anonymously for VPN services and servers. And now, Bitcoin does. That's all that matters to me.