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It's been used by hacktivists before, although people can already pay with bitcoin or other anonymous forms of payment anyway, so even if you accept the DoS as a valid form of protest (and I'm not sold on that personally) we don't really need any new crypto system

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Organic, home-grown DDOS attacks with dozens to thousands of people using home-internet grade connection, such as the infamous 4-chan LOIC, can reasonably be compared to a form of protest. Loudly blocking the way into a business is pretty common among strikers.

For profit DDOS attacks using significantly stolen bandwidth from compromised machines are clearly a different thing entirely. Where you draw the line between them is a discussion topic.

Bitcoin isn't anonymous, its pseudonymous. Unless one is extremely careful and takes a number of secondary steps, bitcoin won't protect your identity.

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