• datendefekt@feddit.org
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    7 days ago

    Bitcoin absolutely is traceable. Addresses might not be clear names, but all transactions are public. Which makes me wonder why the government wants to use Bitcoin.

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      Because the crypto currency industry spent an absolutely ungodly amount of money helping Trump get elected.

      The government buying and holding Bitcoin pumps up the price of Bitcoin. This is just the other side of the quid pro quo. They got him elected, now he has to make them richer.

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      That’s correct. Bitcoin is pseudonymous, not anonymous. If you can find the identity of a party to any bitcoin transaction, you then can know about every transaction they ever made with that ID.

      Which makes me wonder why the government wants to use Bitcoin.

      Because Trump is a fucking imbecile, but thinks there’s an opportunity for a scam.