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A 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity

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Re: A 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity

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Post by true_religion »

gfdgdf wrote: post #8
csixty4 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's called Nabla9's Observation?

Good, you've leveled up. Now explain, why would someone include an adult's age in the title.

27 years old is the oldest you can be while still being part of Gen Z.

This is an article showing that the latest generation to hit adulthood is performing social good.

Re: A 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity

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Post by gear54rus »

toenail wrote: post #10
gear54rus wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not with Monero or mixers. There's thankfully still a few ways to avoid government overreach when dealing with money.

Of course, on an article about bitcoin, and a comment specifically about bitcoin, somebody has to spam monero.

There are mixers for most anything tho. Including bitcoin.

Re: A 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity

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Post by Synaesthesia »

toenail wrote: post #10
gear54rus wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not with Monero or mixers. There's thankfully still a few ways to avoid government overreach when dealing with money.

Of course, on an article about bitcoin, and a comment specifically about bitcoin, somebody has to spam monero.

Out of curiosity, do you think it's more untraceable than BTC? And is it not at the entry and exit points that these things are traceable?

Re: A 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity

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Post by jacknews »

I don't get why it's "A 27 year-old".

How is that relevant? 27-year-olds should be at peak capability, if not productivity, especially in maths.

If it said "A 9-year-old" that would be news-worthy, suggesting bitcoin anonymity was always a case of the emperors new clothes.

Re: A 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity

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Post by benterix »

gear54rus wrote: post #12
toenail wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course, on an article about bitcoin, and a comment specifically about bitcoin, somebody has to spam monero.

There are mixers for most anything tho. Including bitcoin.

Can you guarantee bitcoin mixers are safe?

Re: A 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity

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Post by pixxel »

jacknews wrote: post #15

I don't get why it's "A 27 year-old". How is that relevant? 27-year-olds should be at peak capability, if not productivity, especially in maths. If it said "A 9-year-old" that would be news-worthy, suggesting bitcoin anonymity was always a case of the emperors new clothes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042564

Re: A 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity

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Post by johngossman »

This reminds me very much of an excerpt from a Michael Lewis book. A complex topic boiled down into simple analogies accessible for laypersons and personalized with character details: a childhood of odd obsessions, hints of precociousness, a good but not superstar academic career, brushing up against the more famous. And like Lewis (I enjoy his writing), breathless, and, if you actually know the subject, so simplified and over dramatic to be misleading. Not even wrong. I’m sure the book from which this is excerpted is full of fun stories and quirky characters. In the case of the “27-year old”, she’s interested in puzzles and language at a young age, which turns into studying cryptography. To the muggles, this all probably seems eccentric and obsessive, but to the average HN reader, not particularly strange. Similarly, describing her activities as “one of the strangest, most hyperactive Bitcoin users in the world” is dramatic, but undercut by “In all, Meiklejohn carried out 344 cryptocurrency transactions over the course of a few weeks.” Not criticizing Meiklejohn, whose work is clever and interesting, or the author, who is writing to his audience, but I think I will pass on the book.

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Post by johngossman »

johngossman wrote: post #18

This reminds me very much of an excerpt from a Michael Lewis book. A complex topic boiled down into simple analogies accessible for laypersons and personalized with character details: a childhood of odd obsessions, hints of precociousness, a good but not superstar academic career, brushing up against the more famous. And like Lewis (I enjoy his writing), breathless, and, if you actually know the subject, so simplifie…

Ha! Went to the Amazon page for the book and the blurb starts with an endorsement by Michael Lewis.

Re: A 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity

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Post by faeriechangling »

toenail wrote: post #10
gear54rus wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not with Monero or mixers. There's thankfully still a few ways to avoid government overreach when dealing with money.

Of course, on an article about bitcoin, and a comment specifically about bitcoin, somebody has to spam monero.

A article about the traceability of anonymity of bitcoin absolutely invites discussions of privacy coins which nominally make crypto untraceable and anonymous. Why is that unusual? Why is it so ridiculous for the highly relevant topic of Monero to be brought up?
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