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Re:The U.S. Cracked a $3.4B Crypto Heist–and Bitcoin’s Anony... by carabiner on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:07PM (#35548319)
Bitcoin is not, and never was, anonymous.
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Re:The U.S. Cracked a $3.4B Crypto Heist–and Bitcoin’s Anony... by mrcheesebreeze on Thursday April 13, 2023 @10:14AM (#35555775)
In general maybe, but if you were selling something online and received bitcoin on a wallet not associated with your irl identity you can be anonymous, its just not practical because you need to de-anonymize to get that into actual cash unless you really know what you are doing.

Monero is better.

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Re:The U.S. Cracked a $3.4B Crypto Heist–and Bitcoin’s Anony... by Cthulhu_ on Friday April 14, 2023 @04:50AM (#35567106)
Better only in that it's untraceable, but unfortunately due to bad actors that makes it a dodgy or morally indefensible thing to use.
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