Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.

“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 financial system.”

    • maness300@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Are you going to link to a specific post, or just the whole forum and pretend that’s satisfies the criteria of ‘source’?

      Hey guys! I found a source for everything! It’s called Google. Just cite it at the end of all your papers.

      • pandapoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        You’re something special.

        Okay kid, if this was all about you wanting to feel like you won an argument because people are declining to act as your personal Spotify Crime Explained playlist generator, then you win.

        • maness300@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          10 months ago

          Why is it so difficult for you people to admit you make stuff up without a source? Lol.