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by sockbot 1581 days ago
Changing the definition of anonymous to include pseudonymous is not a compelling argument that anonymity is the same as pseudonomity.
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So, you know who I am or how to reach me? Send me an e-mail (or, better yet, dox Satoshi) and I'll take your point. I don't see how pseudonymity can't be a flavor of anonymity, even cyber-criminals who have every reason to remain truly anonymous online - as in hidden from FBI and gang - can pick some form of pseudonym so people can address them, Dread Pirate Roberts would be an obvious example (tho he failed to be anonymous to govs).

Per Wikipedia:

>Anonymity describes situations where the acting person's identity is unknown. [...] The important idea here is that a person be non-identifiable, unreachable, or untrackable.