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Some cryptocurrencies are more anonymous than others. Bitcoin, for example, is often termed pseudonymous because it’s only partially anonymous. Imagine that someone subpoenas transaction records from an exchange and discovers that you purchased a couple of Bitcoin on the exchange and your identity was tied to those transactions via AML (anti-money laundering) and KYC (know your customer) data collection procedures required by law in the United States (and other countries). They’ll have the address that the exchange used to store those Bitcoin, right? Well, now they can trace the transactions from that address through the blockchain using a blockchain explorer. And different addresses can be associated with each other in certain ways, so it would be possible for someone with the information — a tax authority, for example, or police agency — from a single starting point, to create a picture of a person’s Bitcoin transactions. So, Bitcoin as it is commonly used today is not fully anonymous. Other currencies, such as Monero or Zcash, claim to get much closer to true anonymity. However, improvements to Bitcoin, such as conjoin and Layer 2, are likely to make Bitcoin more anonymous in the future.

So that’s the crypto in cryptocurrency! You can control money in the blockchain anonymously through the use of cryptography, using public and private key pairs and associated addresses, by cryptographically signing messages.