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When you go to a bar, the bouncer checks your ID and determines your age. He will not remember your name. He will not inform the government you are at the bar. He will not write down who you met with or talked to. We as a society trust he will not do these things. You are still anonymous from the perspective of the bouncer.
If humans really truely tried I am sure we could design a transparent system for verifying age or human-ness that we (tech paranoid Lemmings) could trust.
I don't know what that system would look, but I also didn't know how a "cryotographic decentralized digital currency" would work without the backing of a centralized government in 2008.
Thats a good point about the bouncer.
There are some comments here that discuss what this anonymous age verification system would look like. Basically it sounds like a system like that would require a separate service to verify that you're of age and then issue a one time password. There’s more details but thats the gist of it.