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Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by steveeq1 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:04PM (#21274130)
It does already work and the "three letter organization" can't do much about it. Hell, they can't even do anything about the bitcoin wallet "wasabi", much less monero: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/disgruntled-chainalysis-employ...

There have been academic 'attacks' on the monero cryptocurrency, but nothing usable in the real world.

Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by botwriter on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:31PM (#21274483)
When the state names a particular company as anonymous or untraceable consider it compromised.
Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by commandlinefan on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:41PM (#21276142)
Maybe, but not in a usable way - if anybody had been working off of an assumption that Bitcoin were anonymous, they know better now. So if Monero is, as you say, compromised/compromisable, the government can only pull that trigger once before the cat’s out of the bag.
Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by bsder on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:23PM (#21275092)
Meh. The NSA will simply fabricate evidence if they really want to get you.

As an individual, I can't stop the NSA if they are genuinely out to get me. All I can do is increase the cost enough that random bureaucrats have to get up from their computer, sign a form, and expend some money to do so.

Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by steveeq1 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:41PM (#21274602)
bitcoin is not "a company", it's a distributed network of computers that's basically impossible to take down.