Topic: Why do we need anonymity? - page 5. (Read 3167 times)

I doubt bitcoin will ever get anonymity features, it takes too much agreement for it to happen and exchanges would probably be forced to take it off due to the government.

I don't think we need anonymity.
But we shouldn't be forced to identify ourselves in transactions where our identity is irrelevant.

And now, for almost everything in our life's we are requested documents. Do you want to buy a shirt? Your Id please.

This makes no sense, as my id is irrelevant when I am buying a shirt.

It is not that I want to anonymously buy a shirt, but that I want to protect my privacy while doing it, because my identification is irrelevant in this kind of transaction

I think you need to draw the line and make sure you don't the wrong words or mixed it all together. No way in hell if you're being transparent with your live 100% government won't control you. Just take a look at Facebook users. What kind of transparency that they have? It's really transparent to the point that they're doing surveillance over their users.

Anonymity is required at some point, such as if you want to become a whistleblower but still want to protect yourself and your family. You might say that is not required if all company are transparent, but when will that happen?

The problem with people torturing dog is not entirely because they're anonymous. If that's true then all of the people on the internet could literally do that. There's no need to remove privacy and anonymity, you just need better education and some conscience.

No. You don't have to know everything about a certain person because you can help them. Their business, their lives, not my problem. Whatever they do, it's their doing, and the repercussions are theirs so why the hell would I need to care? Also, material things work differently in a societal setup. Of course it's common sense to know the root problem of some malfunctioned machinery and fix it. But for people? It doesn't work that way.


Not necessary since crypto can pretty much establish itself as a working currency within the surface net if merchants were brave enough to accept it back then. It's just that illicit goods traders saw the opportunity laid out in front of them first before the whole world realized that such a thing can be used for exchange and trade.


Crypto offers transparency only up to a certain extent. If crypto offers full transparency, that would cause mayhem since almost everyone would pretty much be targeting the higher-ups in the rich list and boom, you have caused great trouble by creating crypto.


This highly contradicts the post I have quoted from you. You see, anonymity sometimes helps a ton in our societal setup. Again, you don't need to know everything about anybody because it's their life. You can help, yes, but there are some details that should be left alone for their privacy and it's respect as well.

I think a certain balance is needed. There is sensitive information that should not be public, like medical records, details of private life, information about children. And there's also information that should be public, like sources and amounts of income of governmental officials, job offers and other things. A person is safer if the society does not have direct access to the info about this person's wealth. Basically, I am talking about the point made by kaya11. I, for one, do not mind sharing my ID in the supermarket if I buy alcohol, or entering some data online if I buy a train ticket. But giving my passport to a random person or, even more, having it available online for anyone who wants to see it? If this sort of information becomes public, it can be very harmful.

i get the point but you need to look ahead.

If everything is known about eah other we know exactly the people that dont have money and can stay away from them.
Its not like they only know how much money we have, we would kinda know theri attentions and can so avoid them.

Right now every Bum can dress up and look like money and get in circles where people are with money infiltrate them, spy on them and rob them....

Let me tell you a story about our neighbor, she was working on a beauty salon with a salary enough to feed her family. She had another source of income, selling viands to her customers (home made). She go to the wet market every 3 am to collect the ingredients and one morning there were two guys who robbed her, she was nearly killed but it was a miracle for her to be alive. The robbers stabbed her and stoned her enough for her one eye to gouge. She was dragged to the seashore, but the culprits did not knew that she as still alive at that time, Did you know what was the amount of money that was robbed that nearly cost her life? 30 dollars and an old phone that she was using. Imagine if someone knew you had some kind of money that robbers may take interest on them, what would they do to leave no evidence? Kill you of course, and that is the reality. So in some ways we need anonymity, and at some point we need it in a good way.

only when things are transparent we can change them

you cant work on a car if you dont know shit about a car

how can you help someone if you ask him how are you and he tells you good while in reality he feels like shit

only when we know everything bout the governemnt we can succesfully change it.

it will gradually happen, through the power of AI governemnts will lose more and more on influence, like banks insurance etc will all run on smart contracts, so again transaprency is the only solution to cahnge the systema nd free us from this bullshit politics religion media and finance system that is enslaving humanity since hundreds of years now

Anonymity is not a solution for sure, rather we need transparency!! A see a lot of bitcoin maximalists people raising their voice for anonymity to sideline the banking and governance route! But that very idea will land bitcoin in big trouble. A majority of the nations are already skeptical about cryptocurrencies in general only because of its anonymous nature! More push for anonymity will harm cryptos beyond measures!

Rather, it's always better to held our heads high with pride to show we have nothing illegal. That change in outlook is needed for us to survive and thrive amidst all surveillance and regulatory concerns.

Respect and acceptance is what we need because these can gradually make the situation better for us. Revolution can stay in our hearts.

Anonymity sucks, anonymity gives everyone to much ropes to hang someone with it or to hang yourself on it.

I think the solution to a better world is if everything(yes everything, every fart) is on the blocckchain.

Currently, most peoples that live in big cities dont even know their neighbor so you dont even know who is living next to you.

How can this be good, anonymity allows for to much sick shit to happen.

I get the point that in ccountries like north korea or china it is better tos tay anoynmous cause the governemnt knows to much about 1, well how is this different in Europe or the USA?

We are beeing watched and surveilled since day 1 and it wont get better anyways.

Because of anonymity governements have to much controll over us becaue they can set us up with fake news etc.

And we have all learned by know that banning doesnt make things any better, look at the war on Drugs, prohibition and even to think you an outlaw guns is more than ridiculous.

So since everything is known about us by big companys that use the information to play us and take us for a ride everday with fake news articles etc, wh not fight for having all of our data public.

On 1 hand we all humans, some are prettier some are more ugly but we all humans we all shit, piss and act like assholes or bitches, everyone of us.

If you dont do anything weird or crazy that you dont want people to know about you dont fuckign do it.
And if you a sick motherfucker we all have the right to know so we can avoid you and you can get the help you need to straighten your ass out.

All that hiding and havign secrets and stuff is only beacuse of the elite- we cant trust the elite and the biggest beneficary of anonymity is not the small guy- its government, cause usually the governemtn develops the best tools for anonymity etc so if they are in posession of these techniques of course tehy use it against us.

I do beleive that if everythign si run decentralized and open for everyone to see, we can know exactly about our governement and we know exactly were things go wrong insteed know we have to trust fake news and lieing presidents taht they tell us the truth- which they most likely dont do anyways but if everything is open and transparent not even the presidents can lie anymore.

I have the feelng that controlled opposition is pshing for more anonymity etc. and i think its wrong-

Right now there are millions of images of how people kill dogs on the internet- and none forces you to watch it, howver you cant stop it either so the best thing is ignore it.

The problem is, with more anonymity the more people will torture dogs or kids or things like that and will have a better chance to spread this (to my moral standard: sicck shit), but if we know everythign about everyone i think people wont fuck on kids or torture animals that much anymore.

The more we people become transparent the less chance for the governemtn to controll us- transparency will end governements, olicitcs and religion