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>False. On a public chain like Ethereum, every single historical operation and its outcome events and state can be traced and verified. If the source code is published, the running bytecode can be verified to match the source code.

No it's not false. Ethereum doesn't matter, there are a ton of sidechains and mixers that obfuscate transactions and you can't stop people from using them, you also can't guarantee they will provide source code or provide any means to verify their own smart contracts which they don't have to build on top of Ethereum's platform. And many of them don't anyway, specifically because of deficiencies in Ethereum.

>Also false - miners/validators have no opportunity to seize or freeze assets

Actually they do, if they all decide they don't like you then they can blacklist your wallet address. For practical purposes it's the same as a frozen asset. The inability to seize assets is actually a bad thing because it means the network operators have no effective way to confiscate stolen money.

>See above. You can verify what code was running when and with what input.

And you can also do that with literally any other program regardless of whether it's on a blockchain or not.



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