“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.”

  • The Cooking Senpai@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    There should be more education on the difference between “privacy being available if you look for it” VS “privacy being ensured since the beginning and forever no matter what

    Spoiler: the last one does not exists

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      11 months ago

      Spoiler: the last one does not exists

      Maybe technically… But we’ve come up with some pretty ridiculous cryptography schemes that would take billions of years to crack.

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        11 months ago

        You would be surprised in finding out that the majority of blockchains out there aren’t Quantum resistant, tho (elliptic curves being the reason mainly but I am not an expert)