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		SquishyPanda23 on Nov 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin I think the difficulty largely comes from not being able to associate a public key with an individual.

village-idiot on Nov 26, 2018 [–]

De-anonymization is something that we already have a lot of experience with, specifically tying a device to an individual. There’s nothing special about a public key that makes this harder.

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