> _“Bitcoin had turned out to be practically the opposite of untraceable: a kind of honeypot for #crypto criminals that had, for years, dutifully and unerasably recorded evidence of their dirty deals. By 2017, agencies like the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division (or IRS-CI) had traced #Bitcoin transactions to carry out one investigative coup after another.”_

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/04/de-anonymizing-bitcoin.html