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Re:Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed by feanaro on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:52AM (#21079063)
Exchanging Bitcoin for Monero or Zcash, making a private transaction, then selling it back for Bitcoin under a separate account would seemingly stop this dead in its tracks.
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Re:Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed by close04 on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:03AM (#21079352)
But then untraceability would be a quality or Monero or Zcash, not Bitcoin itself.
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Re:Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed by feanaro on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:51AM (#21080049)
Yes, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Bitcoin is obviously traceable by design, but I've seen claims this traceability is unbreakable, even by mixers or roundtrips to other currencies, which just sounds like FUD and nonsense to me.
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