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1 posted on 01/01/2014 8:09:27 PM PST by Theoria
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"We need an anonymous cash online," says Mr. Wilson, who oversees from his apartment near the University of Texas at Austin about a dozen self-described antiestablishment techies working on the software, called Dark Wallet. Some of them are paid in bitcoin.

You can walk into the grocery store and buy eggs in a completely anonymous transaction, unless you want to use your debit card or for whatever reason sign up for their stupid loyalty programs. Point is, it's easy to do. Online commerce should have such an option too, especially since the presence of online stores could kill brick and mortar stores. If anonymity in online purchases were impossible that would be one thing (although then I'd just say online commerce wasn't yet ready for prime time), but the goal should be to have customers have all the same freedoms they had with B&M, one of which was anonymity. Now for physical goods, even if you solve the payment anonymity issue, there remains the barrier that you have to tell them how to get you the product, so that would have to be solved. I have an idea for that though. UPS and other shippers can have facilities to hold the goods, which they release to the first person with the proper code, no ID required.

2 posted on 01/01/2014 8:25:41 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Way freakin cool.

The pursuit of freedom is the root of America. The branches include Eric Snowden. The gooberment we have is an abomination
our Constitution doesn’t allow but our congress critters perpetuate.


3 posted on 01/01/2014 8:27:27 PM PST by theneanderthal
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Every culture, country and civilization has its genius. It's always been that way. In 1700-1950 Europe their genius went to music a lot. In England during the 1500's their genius went to literature.

Our genius got BIG into computers and, business of course.

Mr. Wilson and his cypherpunk friends WILL grow old and die. I suppose they'll want to be buried with their techie telephones. What do you think?

4 posted on 01/01/2014 8:27:41 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Theoria; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...

Not, strictly speaking, a 3-D printer ping...


6 posted on 01/01/2014 9:16:32 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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Ping. This guy sure likes tweeking the nanny staters.


7 posted on 01/01/2014 9:28:07 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
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More power to him and his buds.


9 posted on 01/01/2014 9:29:17 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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Godspeed, Mr. Wilson.


10 posted on 01/01/2014 9:47:43 PM PST by dinodino
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I’m a programmer . maybe I should join him

aren’t there lot of other freeper techies


11 posted on 01/01/2014 10:00:18 PM PST by Democrat_media (Obama ordered IRS to rig 2012 election and must resign)
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