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6. Possibly, but I think people make too much of that.
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 09:02 PM
Jan 2021

Authorities can see when you buy crypto and when you convert it back to dollars, and they can inspect the whole blockchain. It takes more work than with dollar transactions, but it's not as private as people think.

And privacy doesn't necessarily mean criminal.

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