The lack of your real name attached to every transaction was assumed by everyone in the community to be enough to ensure anonymity. That ended when a certain company realized that it was feasible to infer way more than previously thought possible from the subset of transactions that were publicly identified.
The community was only flooded by people promoting this transparency as a virtue after that point.
Full transparency makes Bitcoin another surveillance technology, like social media. It works against you, not for you, unless you work for CIA/Mossad.
If it were to be used as a payment system then yes but no one really uses it for that anymore. Its a store of value now. Like digital real estate. And real estate transactions have always been public so i dont really have a problem with it in regards to Bitcoin but yes, a digital transaction system that were to be adopted as THE national payment system would need to be anonymous to some degree.
The lack of your real name attached to every transaction was assumed by everyone in the community to be enough to ensure anonymity. That ended when a certain company realized that it was feasible to infer way more than previously thought possible from the subset of transactions that were publicly identified.
The community was only flooded by people promoting this transparency as a virtue after that point.
Full transparency makes Bitcoin another surveillance technology, like social media. It works against you, not for you, unless you work for CIA/Mossad.
If it were to be used as a payment system then yes but no one really uses it for that anymore. Its a store of value now. Like digital real estate. And real estate transactions have always been public so i dont really have a problem with it in regards to Bitcoin but yes, a digital transaction system that were to be adopted as THE national payment system would need to be anonymous to some degree.