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Re:Coffeezilla, a YouTuber Exposing Crypto Scams by ouid on Saturday May 14, 2022 @11:08AM (#31378679)
Why do you think cryptocurrency solves this problem? Is it because you hope cryptocurrency solves some problem? It's a public ledger. All a hostile government has to do is find who performed the transactions and imprison them. Is that not considerable interference?
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Re:Coffeezilla, a YouTuber Exposing Crypto Scams by Nextgrid on Saturday May 14, 2022 @11:20AM (#31378812)
There are non-public ledgers such as Monero.
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Re:Coffeezilla, a YouTuber Exposing Crypto Scams by dns_snek on Sunday May 15, 2022 @07:45AM (#31386962)
Being a public ledger doesn't mean your real world identity is automatically connected to a crypto address. In practice most people aren't diligent enough to separate the two, but it's possible.

And then you have private ledgers like Monero.

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