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by cool_dude85 1371 days ago
Personally, I like for my untraceable currency not to have a permanent, public ledger showing every transaction I make.
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Yes, my understanding of bitcoin is that it is not untraceable at all since the transactions can be followed back to their source, but it was widely perceived as such by dark markets for a number of years. I guess maybe if you mined it yourself (no longer really feasible for an individual?) or somehow purchased it with cash it might be.