“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.”

  • @n3m37h
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    -810 months ago

    I knew this in 2007 when I heard about shitcoin. A ledger is a collection of transactions which is widely share, yep sure confedental…

    Seriously how stupid can ya be?

    • @[email protected]
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      610 months ago

      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]
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        110 months ago

        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.

        • @n3m37h
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          110 months ago

          Crypto bros be idiots…

      • @n3m37h
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        -410 months ago

        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

        • @sir_reginald
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          010 months ago

          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.

          • @n3m37h
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            010 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