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by Cthulhu_ 3204 days ago
If you look at purely their respective transaction logs, then probably not. However, you need an exchange to do the transfer. You could do this offline, sit with a guy who is willing to transfer the funds outside of one of the known exchanges - I don't know if there's anyone offering this yet, I can imagine in certain circles this does happen, but it requires a lot of trust.

A lot of the online exchanges are government-regulated nowadays though, and require photo ID for you to be able to do things. Mind you, it should be fairly trivial to forge or use stolen IDs. I think Coinbase asks for a second ID at one point, probably for larger transactions. But either way, those will have a transaction log, so they can see the path from wallet > fiat > bank account, and from there the banks, also regulated, can point to you (and they do / should check your ID with a bit more scrutiny).

TL;DR it's only untraceable if you can do the exchanges between cryptocurrencies and to fiat in real life with shady characters.

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>You could do this offline, sit with a guy who is willing to transfer the funds outside of one of the known exchanges - I don't know if there's anyone offering this yet,

Has been a thing for a few years now - https://localbitcoins.com/