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Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by jhasse on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:39AM (#14909451)
> anonymity

Bitcoin itself isn't anonymous at all: All transactions are public. Only via a Laundry you can cover up your tracks.

Zerocoin and Zcash were created to fix that.

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Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by door on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:50AM (#14911490)
transactions are public but if no one knows that a public key is yours it's difficult to trace. and like you said, there's tools to anonymize your bitcoin transactions completely
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Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by jhasse on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:24PM (#14911924)
As soon as you buy/sell something, someone will know your public key.

The laundry scheme isn't tied to Bitcoin, that's why I think it's wrong to say that one of Bitcoins advantages is anonimity.

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Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by undersuit on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:20PM (#14914214)
>As soon as you buy/sell something, someone will know your public key.

So make a new key, and tumble the Bitcoins until you feel safe again.

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Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by jhasse on Thursday August 03, 2017 @05:12AM (#14918066)
Since all transactions are public, he can easily follow the tracks to your new public key.
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Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by undersuit on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:49PM (#14923133)
Tumbling is supposed to make tracking non-trivial. Anyways you can always convent to another coin, especially one with more anonymity, and then back to Bitcoin.

EDIT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918545 This just started getting popular if you want to talk more about tumbling.

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