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This is a recent article, but it's talking about the bitcoin craze in the early 2010s. > Having set down those words, and blowing a gaping hole in the myth of
by rdtsc 3y ago
This is a recent article, but it's talking about the bitcoin craze in the early 2010s.
> Having set down those words, and blowing a gaping hole in the myth of Bitcoin’s inherent untraceability, Meiklejohn, Savage, and her other adviser Geoffrey Voelker started brainstorming a clever title.
I was never involved with any cryptocurrency, so probably don't remember very well, but was bitcoin ever considered anonymous with its public transaction ledger? Or it's obvious here only retroactively, and at the time nobody knew it?
- mrguyorama 3y agoBitcoin proponents still sell it, TODAY, as "anonymous" and not pseudononymous
- rdtsc 3y agoI'll continue to stay away from it. I had figured when I can walk into most grocery stories and buy some freshly baked bread or potatoes with bitcoin I might finally give it a try.
- b-ryan 3y agoI am a big fan & advocate for Bitcoin and don't know anyone in the space who claims Bitcoin is anonymous. In fact everyone talks about how it's not and ways to fix that.