#  whether the word “anonymous”

By [luyi](https://paragraph.com/@nodamus) · 2021-12-05

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he firm’s initial run of success appears to have cemented and validated the anon identities of its core members, who live their pseudonymous personas not as a kind of perennial in-joke but with complete sincerity, to the point where you have to ask whether the word “anonymous” even fits anymore. 

For instance, Loomdart (who reveals by phone only that he is in his twenties and lives in Norwich in the UK), makes a clear distinction between himself and the aforementioned “doxxed”—those who have willingly volunteered their birth names, as if that’s some kind of credulous, anachronistic thing to do. He actually tried using his real name when he attempted to get into the [Bitcoin Miami conference](https://decrypt.co/73396/bitcoin-2021-miami-conference-covid-fiat-immoral-evil-money) earlier this year—and was promptly refused entry. “They didn’t recognise me,” he said. “But then I was like, ‘Oh, I’m Loomdart, and they were like, ‘Let him through!’”

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