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by piva00 1464 days ago
> is the ability to keep your assets and transactins invisible (or nearly invisible) to the government.

It's only invisible if you got way out of the way of ergonomics to use cryptocurrencies and try to keep them into an anonymous wallet. The moment your wallet address is figured out all of your transfers in history are an open book, by definition of a public ledger.

So anonymity from government is definitely not a real feature of this usage...