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That someone busted the myth of Bitcoin four years after it was made public knowledge that bitcoin was not anonymous.
There was no myth to bust. Bitcoin was explicitly public from its inception.
I guess you hadn't read the article. The point wasn't that the ledger is public, but that the accounts allegedly were deemed anonymous.
My point is read the article then criticize it.
I read it, the point is that people who hadn't even read the basic information about Bitcoin presented by its creator assumed Bitcoin was anonymous.
This is not as groundbreaking as you seem to think it is.
Some people didn't take the time to read closely or think critically and then made poor assumptions.
Like you, for instance, with your comment.
But it wasn't deemed anonymous by anyone who read the bitcoin white paper from 2008. That's the point... that was never a myth to bust because anonymity was never a promoted feature of this chain.
It's paywalled.