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How did satoshi nakamoto made bitcoin and stayed anonymous, Is it possible to make an anonymous organization? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I need some legal advice here, I was going to make a community organization, but my father told me that I have to register the name. but I don't wanna use any kind of personal information for that for privacy reasons.

Is it possible to not give out personal info whilst registering an organization? and if not, do I really need to legally register the organization?

In this day and age you can prove that you're the person by using PGP/GPG, I thought it might be possible. but let me know.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

A bit funny that you would think the typical government was modern enough to allow you to interact with them through cryptographical proof ;)

That said, there is AFAIK one such country: Estonia. It's not anonymous or anything like that, but they allow you to get a ~~"e-citizenship"~~ "e-residency" (anyone can do it globally, I did it in the past, it is quite easy) which is basically a chip-card with a cryptographical proof of your identity. With it you can then interact with the government and banks etc. and start a business or a non-profit company etc. As Estonia is a EU member, it gives your company quite general access to any EU country, so it is quite handy to have in some cases.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The whole goverment are boomers, I'll make my own country that just use cryptography for identities, in the middle of the ocean, because lands are too boring. then I'll proof that we can take out criminals without being privacy invasive with advanced tech robobots to search drugs/criminals with AI algorithms, f** it I'll make everything there open-source also. call me crazy but hey, that's the dream everyone wants.

well then... I'll definitely pack up and leave once I'm 18, the future is coming old man.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Nice to see young people still dream of utopia, regardless of how the specific details of those might be misguided ;)

P.S.: greetings from an old guy living in the middle of the ocean :p

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Is it an actual citizenship? Most European countries require you to legally live in it for around 10 years before you get full citizenship.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

No it doesn't give you any legal rights of residence or anything like that. The name is misleading in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

I'm not sure but you can check it out here