The Future of Digital Cash Is Not on the Blockchain | WIRED

…But, as my colleague Andy Greenberg illustrates in his forthcoming book, the early faith in crypto anonymity was misplaced. The thing about blockchains is that while your transactions might be hidden behind a crypto wallet address, they are also permanently stored on a public database. It didn't take law enforcement agencies too long to figure out how to connect those transactions and wallets to the real-world identities behind them…

https://www.wired.com/story/digital-cash-ecash-act/