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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by mdoms on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @01:34PM (#26093019)
My CC statement is not on a public distributed ledger.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by nprz on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:09PM (#26094021)
You are fooling yourself if you believe using a credit card affords you any kind of privacy.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/consumer-privac...

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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by mdoms on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:00PM (#26094732)
My CC statement is not on a public distributed ledger.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by nprz on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:34PM (#26095131)
Who cares? You have the option to completely anonymize your transactions with BTC, this option does not exist with credit cards, in fact you have no idea who is doing what with your data. If privacy is your concern, BTC is the superior option.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by mdoms on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:21PM (#26096214)
> If privacy is your concern, BTC is the superior option

Bitcoin is a public ledger. It is AT BEST pseudonymous. At best.

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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by nprz on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:57PM (#26096477)
You'll notice users of the silk road who were risking life in prison used BTC, not credit cards, as their form of payment. If it truly was trivial to link a wallet to your IRL identity every user of the site would have been charged with multiple felonies, and yet that never happened.
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