Hackmeister Posted:

How would anonymity have helped at all with a very clearly defined scheme like this? It’s easy to isolate a set of items that no one else is selling and use them to launder money right now. Yes, if it was anonymous, a clever individual might spot it and interrupt, stealing some of the flezz for themselves, but for the most part, an organized group could easily manage the same feat even without being able to see who is putting what auction up.

“Guys, okay we’re going to put 10 happydexes up starting at 10 pm EST through 10:05 est on 12 hour auctions.”

Man, the anonymity would’ve made that manuver so much harder to do…

This was already adressed in previous threads aswell. You could prevent this from happening by not opening auctions immediately, but only at certain times (for example once every three hours). Of course, this would affect the outcome of all auctions because they’d end at the same time, but that doesn’t sound too bad for me. Another solution to avoid this would be that they open at random (e.g. at a random time between 1h and 3h after the auction was set up).

Just to make this clear: I’m aware that this suggestion would require a lot of effort and couldn’t be implemented short-term. The point is: It was obvious that flezz transactions were going to happen the way Kyoubai was implemented.

//For clarification: Of course, the seller wouldn’t know which auction is his aswell. He would never get any link.