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Dr. Bitcoin, MD drgo@nostrplebs.com 0 years ago
You seem to be under the misapprehension that bitcoin private keys are some form of identification. Or that sending transactions necessarily identify the user. Are you familiar with dandelion transaction relay? tor? VPN? I used to run my own bitcoin tx relay where anyone within 20 miles of my antenna could send a transaction inside a wireless message to my gotenna and it would get relayed to the bitcoin network via my ISP.
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Hanshan hanshan@nostrplebs.com 0 years ago
The fact that single individuals COULD get privacy doesn't address my point. Are you familiar with Chainanalysis? Roman Sterlingov? Samourai and TDev? Sending txs from a particular address (ie with a particular private key) ABSOLUTELY identify the sender if those utxos are KYCed. Doesn't matter if you use a VPN or Tor or whatever the fuck antenna not to send it. and since probably 90+% of the network comes in through KYC onramps it means 2 things, one, those users already need to do *something* to obfuscate their ownership and two, people who bought nonKYC are hiding in MUCH smaller anonset than the entire utxo set. in short, Bitcoin privacy sucks. and nothing you've said so far is relevant.
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Hanshan hanshan@nostrplebs.com 0 years ago
"Bitcoin is private because you can just use a VPN to broadcast txs" Dont do drugs kids. smdh the utter state of Bitcoin maxis
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You seem to be under the misapprehension that bitcoin private keys are some form of identification. Or that sending transactions necessarily identify the user. Are you familiar with dandelion transaction relay? tor? VPN? I used to run my own bitcoin tx relay where anyone within 20 miles of my antenna could send a transaction inside a wireless message to my gotenna and it would get relayed to the bitcoin network via my ISP.
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