Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.

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    10 months ago

    I don’t think anyone ever assuming Bitcoin was untraceable.

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      10 months ago

      Reading the article I think it’s obvious to us now, but the paper was posted 11 years ago and people definitely thought they were anonymous then!