BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Interesting Shares@lemmy.zipEnglish · 11 months agoHow a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymityarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down19file-textcross-posted to: bitcoin@lemmy.world
arrow-up142arrow-down1external-linkHow a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymityarstechnica.comBrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Interesting Shares@lemmy.zipEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: bitcoin@lemmy.world
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·11 months agoI don’t think anyone ever assuming Bitcoin was untraceable.
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoReading 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!
minus-squareLmaydev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoAll transactions are in fact intentionally public.
I don’t think anyone ever assuming Bitcoin was untraceable.
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!
All transactions are in fact intentionally public.