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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] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

There are a lot of reasons why it is a fundamentally bad idea. Too much to explain here ;) And I am not even (mainly) talking about the horrible environmental impact they have.

But if you want to go down that rabbit hole, I recommend reading/listening to this for a general overview of what money actually is and why trying to replace the current fiat currencies (as bad as they are) with crypto-currencies (aka fake gold standard / slaver's coins) is a really, really bad idea.

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

Personally, I still think that crypto is much, much better for privacy reasons. and It's kind of not going away any time soon, I think fiat money is worse for the environment also.

but otherwise, I'll jump into the rabbit hole then, I'm curious what all this is about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Bitcoin (and most other cryptocurrencies) isn't anonymous at all, in fact it publically lists all your monetary interactions for anyone to see, and correlating your cryptographic identities with your true identity at the entry/exit point is quite trivial. Monero might be better in that regard, but if you want to do anonymous payments, actual cash (as in coins and paper bills) is still by far the best.

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

I'm talking about monero obviously

edit; one problem for cash, you can't transfer large sums of money easily. and cash is still made of paper. and if I want to give someone money anonymously, It's not as convenient as crypto since you have to meet in person.

It's easier to use monero to anonymize the money also.