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How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity (www.wired.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"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."

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This has to be the most convoluted way of saying someone clustered wallet addresses of a public blockchain. I'm sure there's much more to her work, but this beats so much around the bush.... I'm not going to speculate on the author's motivations for this article, I'll just say I wouldn't waste (more) time on it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The article’s point appears to be an ad for the book written by the same dude whose byline is on the article.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

that makes more sense, considering I felt like reading a darn book that never gets to the point

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

The article seemed to focus on the person more than the actual issues with blockchain.