There are three categories of identity that are useful to
think about.
Category one: public. Real-world identities
are a matter of record and attached to every transaction.
Category two: Pseudonymous. There are persistent "identities" within the system and people can see if something was done by the same nym that did something else, but there's not necessarily any way of linking the nyms with real-world identities.
Category three: unlinkably anonymous. There is no concept of identity,persistent or otherwise. No one can say or prove whether the agents involved in any transaction are the same agents as involved in any other transaction.
Are you claiming category 3 as you seem to be, or category 2?
Lots of people don't distinguish between anonymous and pseudonymous protocols, so it's worth asking exactly what you mean here.
Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Dillinger)
Mon Nov 17 12:05:08 2008
From: Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>
To: satoshi@vistomail.com
http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/137798
think about.
Category one: public. Real-world identities
are a matter of record and attached to every transaction.
Category two: Pseudonymous. There are persistent "identities" within the system and people can see if something was done by the same nym that did something else, but there's not necessarily any way of linking the nyms with real-world identities.
Category three: unlinkably anonymous. There is no concept of identity,persistent or otherwise. No one can say or prove whether the agents involved in any transaction are the same agents as involved in any other transaction.
Are you claiming category 3 as you seem to be, or category 2?
Lots of people don't distinguish between anonymous and pseudonymous protocols, so it's worth asking exactly what you mean here.
Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Dillinger)
Mon Nov 17 12:05:08 2008
From: Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>
To: satoshi@vistomail.com
http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/137798
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