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Re:Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipi... by dylkil on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:17AM (#31860638)
> If the goal was anonymity

its a public ledger, the goal wasnt anonymity, it was autonomy

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Re:Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipi... by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:19AM (#31860658)
that's moving the goalposts. It was about anonymity too.
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Re:Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipi... by ntoskrnl on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:54AM (#31861016)
Bitcoin's original design was a public ledger with all transactions publicly visible. That has never changed since the beginning.
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Re:Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipi... by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:24AM (#31862362)
True, but a not insignificant part of the pitch was also pseudonymity (rephrased from anonymity from strofcon's comment).
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Re:Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipi... by strofcon on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:45AM (#31860926)
Just a nit - it was about pseudonymity, not anonymity.

Still worthless tech, but in the interest of fairness. :-D

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