[Cryptography] Bitcoins and lobbyists

[John Levine]

In article <E1eqqy6-00023F-2R at elasmtp-galgo.atl.sa.earthlink.net> you write:
>"If these money flows had all been Bitcoin-based, her job would have been trivial: the
>government would simply require the disclosure of the Bitcoin addresses of the various
>participants, and the Bitcoin miners (and the various Bitcoin tracing technologies) would
>do the rest."

If someone makes even a modest effort to cover his tracks, tying a
bitcoin wallet to an identity is far from simple.  I don't see it
as an improvement.