Founders

General thoughts on anon crypto founders?

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There was a time where anonymity as a founder made sense — the regulatory risk of outright squashing the ecosystem made it a necessary precaution, see the early messages on Metzdowd from Satoshi for reference. Today, being anon has become more of a negative signal as crypto is clearly not going away.

Mixed. On the one hand there’s founders who won’t get a second look because they don’t have the right creds.

On the other, there’s outright criminals who’ve never paid for their crimes. We shouldn’t be enabling them.

I’ll settle for an anon founder w/ a ZK proof of non-scammy behavior.

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True, but there’s also the incentive for people to capitalize on increasing their social capital

havent really seen any mega successful ones without some sort of doxx

Most don’t seem to actually be anon, just levels of masked pseudo anons. 

One interesting point is roon/growing daniel reaching death threat popularity  (influencers not founders)

A truly anon founder could launch an unregistered security easily afaik, otherwise just hiding the face behind opinions

Depends on use case maybe? Would support a journalist founder who is anon