What does Imogen Heap have in common with mail? The blockchain
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One of Bitcoin’s attractions was always anonymity, but if you used it to buy something, your parcel was always trackable. Now, some researchers have used the blockchain concept underpinning it to make deliveries anonymous, too.
Bitcoin may have made money anonymous, but the problem is that privacy collapses as soon as you touch conventional centralized institutions, like the postal service or branded delivery companies. If you don’t want someone to know what you ordered, you take a risk sending it via the mail – although with drugs so easily concealable, many in Canada have willing taken that chance for years.