Actually almost all of your transaction is traceable in bitcoin. The only thing that they cannot do is to retrieve their lost coin if someone scam them using beautiful words. That is the only problem if the currency that you have is decentralized. No government is involved and you cannot complain if something happens to your money whether it is stolen or sent to the wrong address.
Yes that is quite correct but still, we could not trace the actual identity of the scammers because what we could just trace is the transactions that they made. Basically they will not submit a true KYC knowing that they aim to scam people out. So, it will be a big problem for us so we need bitcoin to become a traceable currency and at the same time, deep inside of us don't want it either. Because one thing we are here now is because of the characteristics bitcoin has, and being anonymous fascinated us.
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Anonymity of any user on the Internet is a myth, and the further the Internet becomes more transparent, but only for specially trained people.
Anonymity in cryptov currencies is, but also has its own price, has its own technology of access to information.
If you own 500 bitcoins, nobody will be interested in you, too small, if you have 10 000 - you are on the hook, no matter what you want.
And what's between those limits - I don't know, anything can be found if they really want it.
The TOR network - has lost its anonymity, this year tracking technologies appeared (to be more exact, this year they wrote about it, and when this technology appeared - I do not know).
VPN - became transparent for owners of certain technologies, this was recently reported in the press, moreover, with the loss of anonymity there was a loss of traffic privacy.
Anonymity is a myth that has its price.