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by bin_bash 1805 days ago
It's trivial to make Bitcoin untraceable. See tumblers.

I think people also have this strange idea that the bitcoin ledger must represent all bitcoin transactions. But think for a minute that I can just email you a wallet and the coins just changed hands without putting anything on the ledger.

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> But think for a minute that I can just email you a wallet and the coins just changed hands without putting anything on the ledger.

I won't trust that you destroyed your own copies of the keys, so I'll want to transfer the coins to another wallet first thing with a real transaction recorded on the ledger. Otherwise I'm risking that at any time you could take the coins back from me.