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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by werdnapk on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @09:01AM (#43621272)
A major point of crypto is based on tracking as the ledger (blockchain) is completely public.
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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by DeathArrow on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:15AM (#43622052)
The identity of the user is secret. Others will just see a public key.
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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by kgen on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @11:46AM (#43623141)
Only in theory right? The moment you use it with a service that requires credentials or an email or a physical address to mail to, it's not, unless you somehow wash it through an anonymous pool somehow
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