. Aside the centralized firms and KYC, how come bitcoin address are traced, guessed correctly and detected easily who is behind it? What do you think the cypherpunk are doing to keep the privacy of electronic money like bitcoin safe and secure? or are they a different group with different goal?
Bitcoin addresses are not easily traced if you know what you are doing.
you can use mixers to ensure your privacy.
you can use one address per transaction, so you will have multiple addresses which are not attached to your history .
If you are careless about technical aspects of bitcoin and your privacy, you are traceable
This "old" text from 1993 is still very actual, more than Ever I would say.
Those are the best parts I would say:
Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. ..... I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.
Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy
