>Pardon my lack of knowledge but wasn't the whole point of bitcoins being anonymous?
It is about decentralization and trying to establish trust outside of the normal banks.
An interesting possible example is in the Genesis block. Satoshi added the newspaper headline:
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
This serves the purpose of a sorta time stamp by using a newspaper headline, but a lot of people like myself think there was also a reason of choosing that headline in particular--we think that it was part of the motivation for the creation of bitcoin--something that would be decentralized and away from banks.
It is about decentralization and trying to establish trust outside of the normal banks.
An interesting possible example is in the Genesis block. Satoshi added the newspaper headline:
This serves the purpose of a sorta time stamp by using a newspaper headline, but a lot of people like myself think there was also a reason of choosing that headline in particular--we think that it was part of the motivation for the creation of bitcoin--something that would be decentralized and away from banks.