Anonymity in public

For better or worse, I'm a public figure in the Koinos community. A very small part of the world knows my name, my face, my voice, and a lot of my thoughts. I started The Koin Press (and BurnKoin and KAP) knowing that I could talk about my work publicly. For me, that was important.

That said, I do love the idea of psuedo-anonymity. I think it's an important feature of using the internet. If I had to hand over my real identity to every website I wanted to use, I would use a lot fewer websites. I support blockchain partially because it extends your anonymity to your money and your ability to authenticate with applications. You don't need a "real" identity, and that's awesome.

Personally, I don't like keeping secrets. It's one of my principles that I won't work on a project that requires me to be anonymous. Sure, I'll do some work for clients, or talk about someone else's ideas and keep all of that secret. It's a fine line, but to me that's just client privilege. I won't take a founding role in an anonymous project.

It's not an ethical decision, just one of the principles I've chosen to live by in this space. I fully support your desire and ability to remain in the shadows. I may even change my mind on this in the future if it comes down to my personal security or some other more important principle.

The point is that I don't want to be secretly associated with my own projects. If something went wrong, people lost money, or some other kind of issue came about, I would want to face it head on. I don't want to hide behind my anonymity. That just delays the inevitable day when someone figures out I'm the one behind it all. Building in public avoids that issue entirely.

-Luke

P.S. Think you can change my mind? I'd love to hear your opinions.