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Elephant in the root | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Could be simply Bitcoin being uninteresting at creation and by the time it became interesting the trail vanished.
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provoost | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 True, online privacy was significantly easier to achieve in 2008-2011 than it is now. This is even pre Snowden revelations.