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I think I we are saying the same thing.

I am saying that a transaction is public, not the details.

I am also saying that dominos will have that transaction tied to the delivery address. This is not intrinsic to bitcoin, its all done on dominos side as part of delivering a pizza.

So let me try again: If abc transfers bitcoins to xyz, and the FBI knows that xyz is a drug dealer, then it sees that abc transfers bitcoins to DOM, then it can subpeona dominos records and find the address of someone who purchased drugs from xyz.

The assumptions I am making: the FBI knows that xyz is a drug dealer. the FBI knows that DOM is dominos.

Are the assumptions wrong? Would the FBI be able to know that?




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