How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing system. That discovery would upend the world of cybercrime. Bitcoin tracing would, over…
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