Anonymity - good or bad?

[Sim_card]

We are in a centralized world where the government controls everything, and that is why they are against anonymous people and privacy. Anonymous simply means that you keep your identity unknown to people but people can see your actions or what you are doing online, without knowing who is the person. While privacy means keeping your data to yourself but you can reveal it to people that you choose to reveal it to. I love both privacy and anonymity for safety.

[KingsDen]

Anonymous simply means that you keep your identity unknown to people but people can see your actions or what you are doing online, without knowing who is the person.

That's what I have said that there needs to be distinct in definition between the two words for we to be well guided in our contributions. What you explained above is valid and with that definition, anyone can be anonymous without crossing the path of the government. For example, with VPN and  Tor browser, I can decide to be who I want online. But then, anonymity spans beyond online anonymity. Take Satoshi for instance, he is completely anonymous...

[Daiana]

Before we talk about the balance, it is also important to see what's the standard that we use to judge it. As a customer, I'd love full privacy, so I don't need to register or give any personal info for any kind of services that I use. But it is nearly impossible for a business to do that. On the other hand, a customer can't verify if their data is not abused, since they have no control over how a business manages their data. I think an ideal solution is to allow customers to see how the company manages their data and decide whether they can keep their data or not, but it is probably not possible as of now for that solution to be mainstream.

I guess this is a bit about GDPR in Europe. Where the companies needs to let you know how they manage your data and that you can ask to be deleted from their database (which of course is not possible if its a court, Tax Agency or so on)

[Daiana]

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The point is, don't be easily persuaded by people you barely know, and with various very attractive offers that will tempt you to take them. Because this is a digital world where cyber crimes are numerous and easy to commit without a trace. So, I personally prefer to respond to various contacts, calls, or whatever when strangers contact me, whether via email, chat, social media, and so on. Because it would be very risky for us. It's better to hide and never trust anyone in a digital world where we don't know who they really are.
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Isn't that a bit sad? To never trust anyone in the digital world? I agree that it's important to be aware and start suspicious but there are also amazing people out there. For me, the attractive part is that I don't have to be restricted by my looks

[Gurujebs]

Just know that anything in life that has a used and advantage, there will be some people that will abuse the privilege for another thing. Anonymity is good, even the government hide many things from you and they do it for privacy reasons, you also have that right to hide your things from the rest of the world, this is why Anonymity transactions is good.

However, because of increase in scams and fraud that frequently happened, it is above the government to control it and you know the government, if there is anything they can't control, they eradicate it completely and that's why you see them hunt down anything that has to do with complete anonymous transaction because they find it difficult to trace most especially the privacy coins.

[Daiana]

Most normal people like to hide their identity but scammers try hard to hide their identity to scam people while governments consider everyone who hides their identity in the world of cryptocurrencies to be a scammer.

This made me smile, and you are correct

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

We are in a centralized world where the government controls everything, and that is why they are against anonymous people and privacy. Anonymous simply means that you keep your identity unknown to people but people can see your actions or what you are doing online, without knowing who is the person. While privacy means keeping your data to yourself but you can reveal it to people that you choose to reveal it to. I love both privacy and anonymity for safety.

If we truly needs anonymity, then we don't have to depend on government for that, we need to give this freedom we deserve a perfect attention by learning how we could secure such from cryptocurrency, since its a digital p2p network that is decentralized, we can afford to give ourself the freedom which we want if we can learn through the required process, privacy is good for us, but the government may not permit for that, except we go for it by ourself and get it done.

[Freemind]

Governments (of any country) always do everything possible and more, so that citizens have less privacy in our lives. Fear is one of the best weapons to control the population of a country. Governments use fear to make us believe that when a person wants privacy and anonymity it is because they are a criminal, but no, this is not always the case, and in many cases they violate the right to privacy of citizens, as occurs with facial recognition. The right to privacy was written a long time ago, at least the text that would guide current rights.

The Right to Privacy.

[UNIVERSE]

Anonymity - good or bad?

For me, it is actually always good and appropriate for this digital business.
Maintaining anonymity in cryptocurrencies is mainly one of the things that makes many people interested in cryptocurrencies, so that they are not subject to certain regulations and also do not have to reveal their identity for one thing or another. For this reason, anonymity is quite important and has an influence on the world of digital cryptocurrency.

However, this anonymity has its downsides, it's easy to get scammed. Additionally, there are legal concerns, especially regarding taxation. Some countries are even reducing anonymity to prevent tax evasion. What do you think is a good balance between maintaining privacy and reducing potential misuse in the crypto space?

Just don't trust anyone.
Don't trust anyone who tries to scam you. And don't easily believe in various sweet promises made by other people towards you, with promises of high proofs, high investment results, assistance, and all things related to requests to send a certain amount of money, assets, personal data, and especially foreign seeds. or access to your wallet. Just don't trust everyone in the digital business, be aware and watch out.

[Daiana]

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Just don't trust anyone.
Don't trust anyone who tries to scam you. And don't easily believe in various sweet promises made by other people towards you, with promises of high proofs, high investment results, assistance, and all things related to requests to send a certain amount of money, assets, personal data, and especially foreign seeds. or access to your wallet. Just don't trust everyone in the digital business, be aware and watch out.
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I appreciate it! Take care

[NotATether]

I would say that a country that has to crack down on online anonymity in order to collect taxes of all things, has a very backwards judicial system.

Anyways, aliases are fundamentally necessary for a variety of reasons. First of all, once a website has your real data, they can do whatever they want with it. Mine it, sell it to criminals, etc.

Second, you're going to get mailing list spam from these people and they won't always let you unsubscribe.

Third, who says you must use your real name for signing up to stuff?

[Zed0X]

~ Some countries are even reducing anonymity to prevent tax evasion.

I am not aware of any country that allows anonymous citizens to settle their taxes. I'm not talking about people who uses dummy companies and/or proxies but paying legally with hidden identity.

What do you think is a good balance between maintaining privacy and reducing potential misuse in the crypto space?

Don't use any centralized services in storing your crypto and converting them to fiat. They always require identification nowadays.

[Daiana]

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Don't use any centralized services in storing your crypto and converting them to fiat. They always require identification nowadays.
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What would you use? I have Kraken and they required pictures of my ID and info about my tax residency

[Daiana]

The appearance of sexuality spoils the detailed content of the crypto world, which really has something to learn, read, make something new out of it as inspiration, such as a new project or becoming part of a team. I don't devote my time to such conspicuous things, as I said before, I don't like it. There is less fraud than last year, which is a sign of a good direction.

The appearance of sexuality?

[Freemind]

The appearance of sexuality spoils the detailed content of the crypto world, which really has something to learn, read, make something new out of it as inspiration, such as a new project or becoming part of a team. I don't devote my time to such conspicuous things, as I said before, I don't like it. There is less fraud than last year, which is a sign of a good direction.

I don't know very well what you said about sexuality, I don't understand your post... If you don't speak English well, or you don't know how to write the language, it's not a problem, you can write in the subforum of your language. Please explain what you wanted to say in your post. I hope you don't write meaningless things just to increase your account rank, that wouldn't be good for you...