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Yes and no. It's traceable in the sense that pseudonymous public keys are traceable. But generating a public key is cheap, easy and can be done anonymously. As
by dcolkitt 5y ago
Yes and no. It's traceable in the sense that pseudonymous public keys are traceable. But generating a public key is cheap, easy and can be done anonymously. As long as the blockchain participant doesn't interact with any party revealing his IRL identity, he can keep his true identity hidden.
- rantwasp 5y agoyes and no. it’s enough to interact with someone that messes up and your identity is revealed. also, in today’s surveillance society I would assume that the gov knows which bitcoins are yours