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submitted 8 months ago by deafboy@lemmy.world to c/bitcoin@lemmy.world

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A story about Sarah Meiklejohn, and how she started to analyze the blockchain back in 2013.

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

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[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

And yet, Silk Road existed, showing that some people perhaps didn't read or understand the white paper.

This researcher proved the lack of anonymity.

Worth mentioning this was ten years ago, when the privacy hype on BTC was very strong.

Disinformation? My eyes hurt from the roll...