How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity
Following the trail —
Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.
Sam Rodriguez
JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly private digital cash for the Internet.
Satoshi Nakamoto, the cryptocurrency’s mysterious and unidentifiable inventor, had stated in an email introducing Bitcoin that “participants can be anonymous.” And the Silk Road dark-web drug market seemed like living proof of...
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