Why Are So Many Digital Currency Players Anonymous?

Why Are So Many Digital Currency Players Anonymous?

Sunny King may be the mastermind behind two different altcoins, but that doesn't make him any less difficult to pin down. When CoinDesk interviewed the creator of peercoin and primecoin, he refused to chat via any of the normal channels that we use - telephone, Skype, or IRC - and instead restricted himself to either the secure, private online chat program Cryptocat, or the online chat system at peercoin's web site. In the age of NSA spying, we understand the difficulty in finding secure channels - but the question is, why be anonymous at all? Anonymity is understandable in some digital....


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