[cabalamat]

> From the government's perspective, Bitcoin could be the least of very many evils. Don't forget that the protocol logs every single transaction publicly

That's a good point. Would it be possible to have something like Bitcoin but with better anonymity?

[mateuszf]

There is a protocol called Zerocoin which may be integrated with Bitcoin. AFAIK it is currently being tested. However it's not sure if Bitcoin developers will integrate it with current protocol. In theory it makes possible to do totally anonymous transactions.