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Also eg bitcoin leaves a globally readable audit trail.



Monero doesn't.


At the risk of splitting hairs: even Monero leaves a globally readable audit trail. It's just designed to be much harder / impossible to track. But no one needs even a warrant to start analyzing.

Random criminals are well advised not to trust their own judgement about crypto claims, nor their own prowess in operations security.

Keep in mind that eg lots of bitcoin exchanges have been hacked without any flaw in bitcoin itself. It's probably even easier to accidentally leak information, even if the underlying coin you are using doesn't.




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