Bitcoin isn't as traceable as people claim
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But it's actually really difficult to prove a chain of custody from UTX o to UTX. Oh, and that, especially when you think about key, you know, keys, getting stolen all these kinds of things. You really cannot there's no linkage between an actual person and these UTX owes.
Episode 137: Wonk Factor (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:18:25 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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From an expert witness's testimony in the Bitcoin Fog case: proving a chain of custody from UTXO to UTXO, and linking any of them to an actual person, is very hard. Stolen keys make it worse, and the 'totally transparent' claim is mostly fiction.
Not in the audio. Dave relays the reasoning of a guest on the Monero Talk podcast (named in the transcript as 'Francisco Cabana'); spelling and details of the case are uncertain, and Dave himself mixed it up with Tornado Cash on air.