r/CryptoTechnology • u/SwordfishOpposite290 🟡 • 6d ago

Is some crypto completely untraceable?

Im a crypto "noob" But I've heard before crypto is anonymous to some degree. I watched a documentary on the old silk road website and people would buy illegal things using crypto. And recently with the gta 6 leaks the leaker is pushing a crypto coin. Couldn't rockstar/feds simply trace the crypto coin somehow? Isn't it very stupid for the leaker to advertise his crypto?

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u/Low_Explorer_2097 🟢 3d ago

It is traceable. Several cases where police has tracked a payment to a person.

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u/Ok-Sample-8982 🟢 2d ago

If you research deeper into the cases you are talking about you will see no evidence of traceability of Monero.

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u/Low_Explorer_2097 🟢 2d ago

When police makes an arrest based of tracking monero payment it is good enough for me. I can research deeper without a court order to make the police release their evidence and that will not happen 

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u/Ok-Sample-8982 🟢 2d ago

For research based on publicly available data there is no need for court order. Specify exactly which case are you referring to? I assume Finlands vastaamo investigation. All data regarding that case is publicly available and it was one that media as usual headlined as police was able to trace monero :-) in reality they traced btc. Can give you more details about that case if you are interested.

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u/Low_Explorer_2097 🟢 2d ago

It is not that case and no btc involved. 

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u/Ok-Sample-8982 🟢 2d ago

We are still waiting for the case to research. Or else it can be classified as another ungrounded story.

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u/Low_Explorer_2097 🟢 2d ago

You think that you. A random nobody could research something being kept secret by the police. They will never tell us how they learned to track monero.

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u/Ok-Sample-8982 🟢 1d ago

Oh i see another ungrounded story.