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- crazyprick6
I'm rich as fuck, loser nocoiners.
- neverscared2
How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.JUST OVER A decade ago, Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly private digital cash for the internet.
https://www.wired.com/story/27-y…
Satoshi Nakamoto, the cryptocurrency’s mysterious and unidentifiable inventor, had stated in an email introducing Bitcoin that “participants can be anonymous.” And the Silk Road dark-web drug market seemed like living proof of that potential, enabling the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal drugs and other contraband for bitcoin while flaunting its impunity from law enforcement.
- sted-1
guess the volume stuck at 62-64
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- neverscared0
Ex-takeaway worker guilty of money laundering in £2bn bitcoin operation
Jian Wen became involved in a criminal racket converting cryptocurrency into assets including property and jewelleryA former takeaway worker found with bitcoin wallets worth more than £2bn, believed to be the largest ever seizure of its kind, has been convicted of a crime linked to money laundering.
Jian Wen, 42, lived above a Chinese restaurant in Leeds when she became involved in a criminal racket converting the cryptocurrency into assets including multimillion-pound houses and thousands of pounds’ worth of jewellery.
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- nb0
If you put $300 into bitcoin when this thread started, you could retire today with around $2,000,000
- What if I put in $400?palimpsest
- No one knows...nb
- $2,000,100 sillysausages
- WHAT IFgrafician
- "Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption"grafician