Apropos of...

In my quest to disassemble crypto words to try to assemble a new understanding for myself; today’s word on the block is “anonymous”.  I don’t know how that word crept in to blockchain as it was always “pseudonymous” and the weakness of those pseudonymous systems on public networks was known since PGP email.

Tradfi coder by day, hacker by night. Doesn’t know night from day. Freelance scribe. Dad cook. Dog butler.  Happy Grandpa. Draws badly.

I make lights blink and play with crypto (cryptography and cryptocurrency) at /neynar. they/them or he/him

Those are really good meta points to make when people get carried away.

It's kind of silly, but I think "pseudonymous" is just too hard to say. And I feel like everything anonymous in theory (crypto or anything else) is always pseudonymous in practice anyways. So the distinction kind of falls away

Very important distinction. There are anonymous blockchains, and some that have smart contract platforms, but none that are widely used. Every one that broke out of obscurity was immediately targeted by governments (see: Monero, ZCash), and others willingly changed to not get delisted (Horizen).