This post may cause a flame war, so I apologize in advance if it happens. Now onto my post:

Is anybody else starting to feel the anonymity of the *coin clients will ultimately be the demise of them? We see scams popping up regularly from people who think things like child pornography, selling hard drugs to any age group, and various other acts that most sane people will view as disgusting. In the IRC channels (#litecoin at least) I can't tell you how many times I've seen questions involving evading taxes, at least as often as I see questions on how to get a mining rig setup. When I ask other engineers who are not currently involved in any crypto currency why they are not the usual answer is "I do not want to be grouped with the scum using them." (their words, not mine) or "Why hide if you have nothing to hide?" I understand privacy is everybody's right and not something any government should control but it seems the scammers have once again proven they will use any means necessary to make a buck. I used to advocate the use of bitcoin due to it's anonymity and lack of control by a overall authority however after the most recent case with Liberty Reserve I can no longer in my right conscious recommend it. So now I ask the more "in the know" / senior members of this community, what valid reasons are there for preserving the users identity?

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Yea the explosion of altcoins is kinda annoying but some people like to experiment with various different types of proof of work algos or various input parameters on the same bitcoin client. That said I think most of the "clonecoins" are more because people want to be able to say they created one.

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Looks like some ATMs are popping up in cyprus: http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/3/25/worlds-first-bitcoin-atm-is-announced-first-location-cyprus.html