Recently, I’ve been thinking about a question: when we usually use bank cards or Alipay to transfer money, all the records are clear and transparent, and the bank knows everything. But cryptocurrency is different. Although transaction records are also stored on the blockchain, they show a string of unreadable addresses instead of your real name. It sounds quite anonymous, but it’s not that simple.
As long as someone knows that a certain wallet address belongs to you, they can trace all your transactions along the chain—what you bought, how much you received—all could be uncovered. It’s like we