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n/w there are also tricks people use. Suppose we wanted to buy something as a surprise and keep it secret, we could each buy the thing the other wanted.
There are services that do that programmatically, that shuffle the currency randomly.
That can make it hard to trace what number is buying what from whom.
The lore i heard was that it was considered anonymous until a college student cracked it or something
The ledger is open to everyone, that’s how it’s able to work as a decentralised currency.
but it’s just a list of numbers and amounts of coin they held at moment in time basically (or rather the transactions to construct that list).
You need to correlate those numbers with humans.
Thank you for the explanation
n/w there are also tricks people use. Suppose we wanted to buy something as a surprise and keep it secret, we could each buy the thing the other wanted.
There are services that do that programmatically, that shuffle the currency randomly.
That can make it hard to trace what number is buying what from whom.