The buyers are anonymous, the recipients (i.e. shops/merchants, generally) are not. The idea is that this will effectively prevent money-laundering and tax evasion as merchants wouldn't be able to hide any earnings.

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Onavo a day ago | parent [-]

Can you buy crypto with this?

	▲	grothoff a day ago \| parent [-]
		It even technically works for Bitcoin (https://git-www.taler.net/depolymerization.git/) - just nobody there who wants to try to do this legally so far.