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[-] cygon@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

...and, hear me out, that will be perfect for keeping messages untraceable by the government. Every single of those 200,000 computers will have full copies of all the messages ever transmitted, unencrypted, but they'll never be able to tell who wrote them and who they were for.

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

No one who understands bitcoin ever thought it was untraceable.

In the early days it was really common to place messages in the chain.

There are literal marriage proposals among these message.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

I even considered the main benefit to be that it was super traceable.

I once tracked some stolen crypto trough multiple Wallets and exchanges to find the one wallet where those hackers where keeping all the spoils.

Granted the owners of a wallet aren't public and thats a form of anonymity but surely intelligence agencies can figure it out.

[-] Cinnamon3431@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Monero entered the chat.

[-] helo@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

privacy or secrecy from the government isn't a goal of Bitcoin - the protocol doesn't even use encryption.

the goal is protection from (government or other) control

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