Topic: Anonymity is bitcoin's weakness - page 2. (Read 2072 times)
but if it will be used for crime, it will either not be used at all (people wont use it because it supports crime) or it will be actively persecuted by the authorities.
i think anonymity is bitcoin's stregth
agreed...as the other poster said, it is all tracable. Instead of names, we're numbers.
i think anonymity is bitcoin's stregth
Bitcoins are fully traceable from the day they are generated to their current owners address. The anonymity is that no one knows who's address is who's unless someone is stupid enough to paste one of their addresses vvvv see bottom of post vvvv. So in theory if someone sent me 0.00000001 BTC, and I stored it in the same wallet.dat as the rest of my bitcoins, once I spent it with other bitcoins they MAY be able to trace back and work out how many bitcoins I have. But there are a lot of assumptions there. It does makes things difficult to trace. But everything is possible, the impossible just takes a little longer.
people who want a trackable currency are already surved just fine with credit cards and/or paypal.
If its not Mt Gox it will be someone else. A currency that just requires hacking into a computer to steal is never going to last. Bitcoin must be traceable if it wishes to survive. This is not on Mt Gox. They are just the first victim.
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