Bitcoin is NOT anonymous--and is a dangerous privacy issue for its users

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It is absolutely not better than a bank transaction. This is the sort of dangerous misinformation I have been talking about here.

If you say Bitcoin does not provide any better thing for you and your life, why are you here?

I've said nothing of the kind.

Are you here to prove that Bitcoin is not as good as people say and want to debunk it?

I'm doing no such thing. Maybe you were just hoping I was saying something like that so you had a reason to get into a fight?

Go ahead and you will receive many helpful answers from community to enlighten your wrong knowledge on Bitcoin. The day people recognize that you are trolling, the community will be done with all threads you create.

You are misreading my posts in order to... have this emotional outburst. Some would call that... trolling.

OP, I think you've been influenced by people who aren't familiar enough with bitcoin and taken that information as being commonly understood.

It's not. That's just your understanding from poorly informed people.

Correct: that was the premise of the OP, that many people are misinformed about Bitcoin, and this creates a dangerous situation. I never implied that I personally thought Bitcoin was a private currency.

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OP, I think you've been influenced by people who aren't familiar enough with bitcoin and taken that information as being commonly understood.

It's not. That's just your understanding from poorly informed people.

It's well known by people who are well informed that bitcoin is not private, in that you cannot easily or typically use your coin without giving complete or partial evidence of your holdings.

Secondly, your ignorance of address usage is just that - your not having come across it is your doing and no one else's.

We're all learning.

Yes, you are right.

Having said that, you have the possibility to keep your transactions private if you do the work.

Satoshi Nakamoto is a clear example of this. No one (except maybe a few people) know about his transactions.

But for the average person who does KYC, and reuses addresses, etc, then it's quite clear to see the transactions linked to an ID.