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by grlass 1668 days ago
Most of these systems are designed around pseudonymity, not anonymity. Only things like Zcash, and Monero set out with that explicit goal.

I suppose much like with BitTorrent, the criminal needs will be both good and bad; allows routing around unjust laws (of which there are many), as well as routing around just laws (of which there are many).
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bhouston 1668 days ago
> Most of these systems are designed around pseudonymity, not anonymity. Only things like Zcash, and Monero set out with that explicit goal.

I agree. There are regular +100M bitcoin transfers happening between pseudonymity accounts, which could easily be money laundering / tax avoidance by billionaires: https://twitter.com/whale_alert

I think in the fully legal system, all accounts would likely be tied to real identities.

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