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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 @04:53AM (#35567126)
And it is private, in that the blockchain is a ledger of IDs and transactions with no information about the people behind them.

The blockchain is anonymous enough, it's just that all transactions are public (forever) and conversion to real money requires identity.

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