SatoshiShield on Nostr: This isn't hypothetical. In 2020 the IRS paid Chainalysis and a forensics firm to ...
This isn't hypothetical. In 2020 the IRS paid Chainalysis and a forensics firm to build tools to break the privacy of Monero and of Bitcoin sent over Lightning. It's a public contract — you can pull it up on USAspending.gov. The effort to de-anonymize ordinary users is funded, ongoing, and on the record.
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