So suggesting zero anonymity and continuous surveillance is not just dangerously dumb but mostly useless. If OP want such goodies then he should move to North Korea
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I did not suggest anything about continuous surveillance. In fact, I highly recommend using gold for transactions. That is not anonymous, but it is good enough for you to sell your kiddie porn.
But there was a snake in the garden. Silk Road created a black market that allowed criminals to become parasites to the Bitcoin development community. The bad press and negative impact of this crime wave hindered Bitcoin adoption. It wan't until Silk Road was closed down that Bitcoin adoption began to take hold and investment grew.
This is a great example of how disconnected some people are from reality.
Silkroad and darknet are a natural reaction to malicious laws and are a net benefit for humanity (and bitcoin adoption).
Silk Road was not possible until an anonymous internet money was invented, not as a sociological reaction. It was an opportunist exploiting an technology for which it was not intended. Your characterization of laws as "malicious" belies your ulterior motives as an anarchist.
Using randomly created addresses was not the original intent of Hashcash and Bitcoin. It was intended to use email addresses. That would have avoided the anonymity problem. I'm not making a black and white, good vs. evil argument here. Bitcoin is already anonymous if you are very very careful. All I'm saying is that it shouldn't be so anonymous that any street thug can use it do their thing. I know I won't stop the Secret Squirrel Brigade from doing what they do either. All I'm saying is that this is why we can't have nice things.
