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Moxie Marlinspike is a pseudonym. He co-founded of Signal Foundation.

As the article says, pseudonymous does not mean anonymous. The real identity of the person is in the legal documents and known by everybody how needs to know. The fame and credibility the person has acquired has been done using pseudonym.

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And this is strange, since what they are talking about is obviously "anonymity".

Clearly they are not.

The most extreme case they mention is:

> .. Assumes team is pre-product and does not want to reveal their identities to investors. However, there are teams that choose to only reveal their identities to stakeholders for legal and financial purposes.

the footnote says that sometimes identities are revealed to stakeholders.

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