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Re:Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling by olefoo on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @07:08PM (#9307622)
This only allows you to stay anonymous if you can get your money out of bitcoin anonymously. Whether by buying dollars/yen/whatever on an exchange or purchasing goods and services.

And it's damn hard to buy a yacht anonymously regardless of the unit of account the transaction is done with.

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Re:Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling by andrewchambers on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @08:59PM (#9308055)
You can get bitcoin anonymously by mining. The weakness is in trading, even then, there are anonymous goods such as digital goods, and probably ways to perform anonymous escrow when trading real goods.

In practice, people don't care, because they aren't doing anything illegal.

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Re:Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling by aboutus on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @08:42PM (#9307994)
The most important aspects of bitcoin is that it's decentralized (cannot be controlled by governments and banks) and inflation-proof.

It's not anonymous, but certainly more private than using a debit or credit card!

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