“By allegedly designing the Silk Road to use tools like the anonymity software Tor and the potentially tough-to-trace bitcoin, she argues that he had invited drug dealers onto the property.”
“Projects like Darkcoin and Dark Wallet that seek to enable the anonymous use of cryptocurrency could also find themselves on thinner ice as that the limits of bitcoin’s legal anonymity have become clearer.” Suppose a wealthy person in DC wanted to sponsor reformers in a country like Eritrea or North Korea. Such a potential contributor might not want any association with bad places, or the appearance/reality of meddling in the affairs of their State Department friends. As a recipient, your life is at risk if the government finds out you are fighting them, esp. if you have demonstrable financial help from the west. Now I admit that the current $31 million market cap on Darkcoin isn’t going to change the world, but there are reasons to want to keep financial transactions completely anonymous… Marcus
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