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Re:Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin by SquishyPanda23 on Sunday November 25, 2018 @10:51PM (#18530921)
I think the difficulty largely comes from not being able to associate a public key with an individual.
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Re:Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin by village-idiot on Sunday November 25, 2018 @10:53PM (#18530928)
De-anonymization is something that we already have a lot of experience with, specifically tying a device to an individual. There’s nothing special about a public key that makes this harder.
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