| I honestly don't understand how your point is relevant. Most of the real world does not require identity, so how does "The real world doesn’t allow that" make any sense? Yes, some parts of the real world require you to identify yourself, and the same for some places on the internet. Is that really the point? That if you have to use your real identify to log into your bank's web site that you don't have "unconstrained anonymity"? Because I don't think even the cryptopunks of the 1990s required that sort of anonymity. > and if someone started sending thousands of people per second So, 100/second is okay but 1,000/second not okay? I ask because it looks like 100 people per second enter Manhattan during the peak morning commute time, and I don't see massive calls to make it harder for commuters to enter the borough. (Go to http://manpopex.us/ , go to statistics, "Estimated Pop. for Wednesday, 9 AM: 2,888,116", for "10 AM: 3,284,591" gives 110 people per second.) And these people aren't all required to identify themselves. Question for you: does the internet currently have more anonymity than the real world? Question #2: how much fraud is done on the internet vs. fraud in the real world, measured by dollars? |