Tigran Gambaryan was among the first U.S. investigators to demonstrate that cryptocurrency transactions were traceable, challenging the myth of total anonymity.

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He was one of the first government investigators to figure out that an underlying assumption about cryptocurrency — that it was anonymous — just wasn’t true.

When I started looking at cryptocurrency, I’m like, bitcoin is traceable. We can totally do this,” Gambaryan told me during an onstage interview at a cryptocurrency conference last year, explaining how he came to find patterns in the giant ledger that keeps track of all transactions.