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How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity (www.wired.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That's crazy that you heard about crypto before it was created in 2008. Are you Satoshi? Did Hal Finney get Internet installed in his casket?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So they were off by one year. This was years ago. Hell, I thought I remember reading about it in 2000,apparently not. I'm probably mentally conflating it with the white papers I was reading in the late 90's, some of my more technical coworkers at that company (which I left in 2000) were hot on what we now call crypto currency.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Crypto bros be idiots...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's confedental.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry I missed a year ya pedantic donkey

I heard about it around that time and it was as stupid then as it is now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

as stupid as they are, if you had installed it and mined it for a few minutes, you'd be millionaire now.

I assume that's why they enrage you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

And if you're at the top of a pyramid scheme, you can become a millionaire, too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Ass U Me more. Money is not a motivational factor for all. There is virtually no benefit of crypto currencies that arent out weighed by all the negative factors.

If im gonna needlessly waste money it will be for research (folding@home) This is at least benefits others