I'm not sure you're even committed to this rhetoric. We know intuitively
that there are a stable of advantages in maintaining a recognizable face in
social and business relationships. Anonymity/pseudonymity are capacities.
Often alternative, but often default capacities.

To argue for the disclosure an expressive/political capacity on a cost
basis is stodgy conservatism.




On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:57 AM, JINDQ1 <jindq1@???> wrote:

> If you extend on that principle, you'll see that we only trust family
> because we can tell them apart. What if your mother and father were
> anonymous? How would that change your world? What if all people were
> completely faceless and could change names and appearance at any moment?
> I'm having a hard time believing that's in the best interest of a society
> that seeks to protect itself in numbers. Maybe DNA will be the answer to
> that, not bitcoin.
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab
>
> Cody R Wilson <codywilson@???> wrote:
> That's kind of breathtaking, Matthew.
>
> Might I offer that political economy isn't the only grid by which we
> should evaluate the concept?
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:36 AM, JINDQ1 <jindq1@???> wrote:
>
>> I'd love to mock them (because it's easy), but if you want to play the
>> game created by old dudes who still think IP address = single person,
>> you'll have to follow all the rules.
>>
>> The real question is, is being anonymous good for society? I haven't seen
>> a single benefit of anonymity (lacking any verification documents) that
>> isn't highly outweighed by it's ability to enable abuse. Human beings may
>> be nameless, but they're not non-quantifiable. Is there a way to remove the
>> names and keep the verifiable quantity that doesn't make the libertarians
>> twitch and squirm?
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab
>>
>> Cody R Wilson <codywilson@???> wrote:
>> Thought I'd just mark the occasion. Coinbase is now requiring identity
>> documents to verify class 2 account holders.
>>
>> Glorious compliance!
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Cody R. Wilson
>> codywilson@???
>>
>> The University of Texas School of Law
>> Class of 2014
>>
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>
> Cody R. Wilson
> codywilson@???
>
> The University of Texas School of Law
> Class of 2014
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Cody R. Wilson
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The University of Texas School of Law
Class of 2014