@Benjiman Schlegel Bitcoin's an incredible technology, but it's not particularly private, anyone using something like Arkham Intelligence (https://www.arkhamintelligence.com/) can figure out a lot about different people on the network. There are privacy solutions with mixers like "coin join" but they are often viewed badly by governments and in certain jurisdictions you can get in trouble if they find you using them. A lot of apps don't allow addresses that have interacted with mixers to work with them because the companies don't want to get in trouble with governments. So yeah, in its current state, Bitcoin's less private than a Swiss Bank, but Bitcoin's constantly evolving.

@Benjiman Schlegel you can see exactly what addresses have interacted with what addresses. So assuming I send you like $10 in BTC, you'll see where that's come from and be able to walk back up the transactions to see other addresses I may own. You can't be sure all those addresses before were mine, because I could have been sent that $10 by someone else directly before sending it to you. But some clever government agencies with access to certain platforms that have KYC'd you along the way can figure this stuff out.

Nice work! I've been in this space for almost a decade now but never been to an official event. I should go some day

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