Great write up. Got me thinking about privacy and anonymity on HIVE. I remember, at one point in the early days the STEEM roadmap had an outline for privacy features. It said something about ring signatures and how they could possibly be used, although from what I understand ring signatures are not sufficient enough for privacy anyway. We would most likely have to look at something using zero knowledge proofs if we want the best privacy...

Unfortunately as one of the most intelligent figures in the crypto space Zooko puts it "You can’t add it(privacy) without breaking existing systems and user behavior"

https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1184890874356011008

- zooko

• who knows, maybe its possible and someone will figure it out one day. something to think about....