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Bitcoin Was Never Anonymous: Mixers and Blockchain Traceability Explained

Original: Crypto, Mixers, and Traceability: Why Bitcoin Was Never Anonymous The fifth installment in a series about the darknet. I

A cybersecurity writer has published the fifth installment in a series on the darknet, this time examining why Bitcoin was never truly anonymous. The piece explains how blockchain traceability and crypto mixing services work, and follows earlier installments debunking darknet myths, explaining how darknet marketplaces operate, and tracing the lifecycle of leaked data. Early readers in the infosec community appear to be sharing it as a useful primer on cryptocurrency privacy misconceptions.

Why now: Ongoing interest in cryptocurrency privacy and law-enforcement traceability keeps explanatory series like this in circulation

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