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

  • @[email protected]
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    2510 months ago

    Bitcoin is, fundamentally, a publicly accessible ledger of every transaction ever made with the currency. It’s basically the most anti-anonymous way to run a currency imaginable.

    People have just been hedging their bets on authorities not knowing how it works, which is increasingly not the case.

  • @[email protected]
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    2410 months ago

    Is the age shocking because young for “societal accomplishments” or old for “tech genius”?

    • @Rognaut
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      1610 months ago

      Right? I think I’m missing the significance of the person’s age.

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      Reading the article I think it’s obvious to us now, but the paper was posted 11 years ago and people definitely thought they were anonymous then!