[majormajor]

> 3. Pay and get paid in cryptocurrency. Have smart contracts send you the money (think Richard Heart’s Hex origin address, but actually anonymous).

My first question about this plan is "what are you getting paid for and how do you advertise your services"? You need to never meet the people paying you in person, and ideally you are selling some purely digital good. So, something like underground illegal programming or hacking or such? Is there anything else that would work?

[notsoanonynous]

I thought it was obvious, but I guess not.

No, you don’t do work for money. You start an open source project and get many people to run your software. You meanwhile generate as many early rewards as you can (you can even do it under multiple accounts) and when the ecosystem is up and running, you’ll be the mysterious founder, generating millions (or billions) in passive income.

Sounds familiar? It should…

Simply never move money using your first few accounts, and whoever early people you pay, have them stake your currency for a long time, and borrow against it on decentralized lending marketplaces, to avoid spooking people that the mysterious founder has moved their money.

[CRConrad]

So lemme spell it out: This is what you're claiming Satoshi did / is doing.

[majormajor]

Well that's not interesting at all, then. How repeatable do you think that is?

That's one of the problems with trying to stay anonymous, right? The playbook constantly goes out of date.

[dento]

Some blockchain project offer grants for (completely legal) programming work, and some of them wont require real world identification.