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Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by NikolaeVarius on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:09PM (#21273464)
From the very beginning, bitcoin never promised fully untraceable and anonymous transactions.
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Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by wcoenen on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:35PM (#21273815)
Section 10 of the original white paper is about privacy. It imagined bitcoin transactions being public, but still about as private as stock trading transactions that are published on a ticker tape.

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Bitcoin transactions turned out to be a great deal less private than that, because separate transactions from the same wallet can be linked via the change outputs (unlike separate trades on a ticker tape).

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