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submitted 10 months ago by BrikoX to c/interestingshare

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Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.

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[–] possiblylinux127 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't think anyone ever assuming Bitcoin was untraceable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Reading the article I think it's obvious to us now, but the paper was posted 11 years ago and people definitely thought they were anonymous then!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

All transactions are in fact intentionally public.