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Re:Why Bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme by tarboreus on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @09:25AM (#29649714)
The part where you identity is linked to the wallet can be anonymous. The transactions are public, but if your identity is unlinked, that only matters so much.
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Re:Why Bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme by fsflover on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:05AM (#29650246)
This is called "pseudonymous", not "anonymous".
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Re:Why Bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme by tarboreus on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:27AM (#29650538)
I mean, an digital account will always have an identifier. If having a number associated with the wallet makes it only pseudonymous rather than anonymous, then fine, though it seems like a trivial distinction. The upshot is that it can be private, though you need to do things in a certain way.
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