> Do you seriously think the thing keeping you from paying for this article is lack of anonymity?

First: I wrote about "a way to do micropayments completely anonymously" which is actually two things:

1. a way to do micropayments (this is currently quite hard)

2. a way to do this anonymoysly

And yes, I find it very alarming that there is no way to pay in the internet really anonymoysly (I come from Germany, where people still love to pay with cash also because cash is hard to track) - this is really an important reason I am rather hesitant to pay in the internet.