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Title: [2014-05-05] Wired: 5 Bitcoin Projects That Could Make Payments Far More Anonym
Post by: bryant.coleman on May 05, 2014, 05:01:10 PM
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/bitcoin-anonymous-projects/

5 Bitcoin Projects That Could Make Payments Far More Anonymous

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Some believe that bitcoin’s anonymous properties are a bug, not a feature. This past January, New York financial regulator Benjamin Lawsky called for a crackdown on software that anonymizes transactions in the online digital currency, saying it will merely help criminals evade law enforcement. And one of the currency’s biggest supporters, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, believes bitcoin will truly thrive only after it shrugs off anonymity protections.