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How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity (www.wired.com)
submitted 10 months ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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"This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing financial system."

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This has to be the most convoluted way of saying someone clustered wallet addresses of a public blockchain. I'm sure there's much more to her work, but this beats so much around the bush.... I'm not going to speculate on the author's motivations for this article, I'll just say I wouldn't waste (more) time on it.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The article’s point appears to be an ad for the book written by the same dude whose byline is on the article.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

that makes more sense, considering I felt like reading a darn book that never gets to the point

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

The article seemed to focus on the person more than the actual issues with blockchain.