On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Rich Jones <rich@openwatch.net> wrote:

Seems to me the only way to anonymously use BitCoin is to never tie them to your actual identity whatsoever.

Seems that'd be about as hard as breaking your stash into possibly thousands of random sub $casual amount pots and shuffling/washing them about would be. Though both are possible does anyone bother? The problem for large balances is even more... spottable reconvergence of the amount on the other side. You'd need to close out at the thousands stage post wash instead of reconverging. It might help if there were a few large essentially free random washing machines operating in the anonymous space to encourage all transactions to be scrambled and swapped. Localbitcoin equivalents might be the only real in/out points available for such things and even that's not always perfect.

coderman: still waiting for zerocoin to get merged into mainline ... *cough*

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