When do you use your real name, if ever?

[b!z]

I was amazed (and still am) at the number of people that trust anonymous nicks so when I opened a mining pool I put my name and business details in the first post.

Bitcoin is supposed to be anonymous. What's wrong with anonymity?

[mjc]

I use my initials.  However, if you go to the link for my book, my real name is listed there as the author.  That said if you have something to hide, you should be doing MUCH more than just using an alias on the forum.  So basically if you have to ask then it doesn't probably matter because you have already exposed yourself enough that if someone needed to track you down they could.

[vhaasteren]

Use mine all the time.

[MineForeman.com]

Bitcoin is supposed to be anonymous.

Not at all true, bitcoin can be 'sort of' anonymous but that is more by cryptography than design.

As to what is wrong with being anonymous...  Nothing, but the flip side to that is trust.  It is very hard to trust someone who wont even tell you who they are.

[sidwa69]

Yes, its anonnymus.

But i always use my real name and everywhere this same nick.

Its only your change.

[Deafboy]

I use my real name only when it comes to the Job interviews, communication between coworkers, communication with people that already met me IRL, or sending / receiving a package. For everything else, there is my nick. However, it's not difficult to dox me if you know the nick.

[Waffles]

only when legally neccessary, if you googled my real name, you wouldn't find real information even though my name is extremely uncommon,

[KarmaByte]

I forgot my real name 

[Kluge]

I was amazed (and still am) at the number of people that trust anonymous nicks so when I opened a mining pool I put my name and business details in the first post.

Bitcoin is supposed to be anonymous. What's wrong with anonymity?

Anonymity is generally bad for business when there are two-way obligations. You can't file suit against "fogducker666" unless you know his name and location. It's generally also a bad idea to do major amounts of business with someone far away, because again, you lose the ability to file suit. Maybe more importantly, you lose the ability to threaten filing a suit. Moral or not, the government is force, and nobody wants to be on the receiving end.

It's kind of funny, though, because Bitcoin's fairly small, and there's a large forum community. Bitcoin's advertised as "zero-trust," and I guess people expect mods and admin to review and remove scams pre-emptively, or maybe just for the community to be pretty close-knit, not scamming each other. So, "fogducker666" shows up selling LSD behind a Tor website, and a good few people will send him their BTC before it's realized he's scamming.