Privacy. I don't want anybody looking into what, where and when I spend my money, like banks are doing nowadays.
That's a lost cause. Just like you don't write "private" matters on postcards or in emails, you shouldn't expect private online transactions, be it with credit cards, wires, or bitcoins. Sure, you can make it hard to tie your identity to a transaction with any of these, but not impossible. The only reason Bitcoin offers a significant degree of anonymity today is that it is still a new, obscure technology.
Rather than obsessing over the impossible, we should note that Bitcoin brings in the possibility of public audits. Unlike todays surveilance society, where access to complete information is exclusive, asymmetric, and therefore unfair,
Bitcoin can win the battle to make acess to financial information fair. The citizens' transactions are monitored by the State and corporations, ay the same time these entities harras, imprison, and even murder citizens who try to do the same.
Bitcoin can be a path to a more transparent, accountable government and corporate sector.
The bolded text is fantasy and delusion.
The public ledger will enslave the 97% but the 3% will be entirely anonymous, because only they control the means (NSA, packet sniffing on all networks, etc) with which to break anonymity regularly.
I see so much of this stoopid delusion among the Bitards:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=363852.msg3889591#msg3889591
