Can I buy a pizza with it or pay my bills with it? Can my employer pay me in it? Or is it just an “emperor’s new clothes” thing? I just don’t see the tangible value in it. Rhetorical questions, BTW, I know you can’t buy a pizza with it, at least outside of some edge cases that I’m not aware of.

I thought what made money money was everyone agreed it was valuable and was willing to exchange it for goods and services directly. I don’t see that with crypto.

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    Well, you presumably believe that you know what you’re talking about, so why don’t you tell me how this tracing is supposed to work?

    • I create a fresh wallet A. I go to John and buy bitcoin with cash, deposited to that wallet. John knows zilch about me other than that some person occasionally shows up with cash, among dozens other people.

    • John gets busted, his wallets are known.

    How does the FBI tie wallet A to me?