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How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by deafboy to c/bitcoin

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A story about Sarah Meiklejohn, and how she started to analyze the blockchain back in 2013.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/8623167

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

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[–] deafboy 5 points 9 months ago

The whitepaper shows it, but people would need to read it first before making shit up, so there certainly WAS a myth about bitcoins anonymity. It was deeply embedded in the popculture for some time. Various CSI TV shows had a blast with it.

I've decided to crosspost it here despite the clickbait headline, because the process of doing the coin analysis by actually buying stuff online and sending money to and from the exchanges back and forth is pretty interesting.