Yeah totally agree. You don't need anonymity unless you've something to hide. In most cases online, people are just trying to hide the fact they are twats but it is indeed necessary for criminals.
Sorry but that is total bull.
None of the following condones any criminal act and certainly not this despicable extortion of a business but to say Bitcoin is the problem is asinine.
what always makes me laugh when the nothing to hide nothing to fear crowd come out of the woodwork is the irony - they don't even understand the quote is attributed to supreme authoritarian Nazi propagandist Goebbels. It was only ever to sooth the simple minded sycophants of the establishment as they cracked down on anyone who opposed their tyranny. Amazing such a transparent piece of propaganda can still be effective in the minds of people today which is probably why so much propaganda and tyranny is based on blue prints from the Nazi regime.
You want to blame Bitcoin for criminal activity?
Do you understand why Bitcoin came about?
Do you realise the biggest fraudsters and criminals in the world work in the banking industry which is precisely why Bitcoin came about - to counter banker controlled currency and fiat money?
Do you understand why they really want a cashless society and to trace every penny?
But hey, having globalist bankers decide you should forfeit your bank account to pay their debt and simply taking your money isn't a crime right? (Cyprus)
And they would never do that again anyway, right?
And the government certainly wouldn't use it to track your movements and the data would never be sold to third parties for commercial gain, right?
Just as the internet is not to blame for fraud nor is Bitcoin - the fraudsters are.
The very things you want to give up control of to the establishment for security (who by the way are proven liars, fraudsters, criminals, paedophiles to varying degrees) are the very things that give us what little freedom and privacy we have left.
It is such a sick twisted inverse joke that even Cameron's adviser on internet censorship (To save the children!) was arrested on paedophile charges.But it doesn't matter how obvious the tyranny is because folk like you will never ever see it.
Will you be like the compliant Germans, applauding as they frog march dissenters off if we ever get that far down the rabbit hole.
Technology, whether it is Bitcoin or a drone are neutral, it is how they are used and who by that matters.
Sorry for veering off topic but that was the second comment of ignorance about Bitcoin.