Bitcoin is not NEARLY safe enough for AP Re: your death pool becomes a honeypot because of poor tradecraft

Troy Benjegerdes hozer at hozed.org
Mon Jan 13 12:13:23 PST 2014


If the FBI is smart they will start sponsoring buttonwood meetings
with the Silk Road bitcoin wallet(s).

This will set off an interesting turf war between the bankers and
intelligence community.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:42:51AM -0800, gwen hastings wrote:
> Wow,
>     thats kind of an interesting read.. especially using the technique
> of tagging the wallets with another easily recognizable amount to make
> them easy to trace.
> 
> It would seem the the blockchain which protects against double spending
> but is entirely public and unblinded(in a chaumian cryptographic
> blinding sense) and the fact that one can unilaterally pay a particular
> wallet a recognizable amount..
> 
> It would seem that one simple could leave that amount behind(since it is
> EASY to identify and simply transfer the rest of the funds into ever
> smaller wallets and exchange those face to face at buttonwood meetings etc
> 
>     formerly we used to classify an electronic anonymous currency
> by saying "its good enough for assassination politics"..
> 
>    Bitcoin is not NEARLY good(safe) enough for AP... sorry
> 
>    GH
> 
> ps is lucky present?
> 
> and TC MAY get your ass out of the woodwork and post damn it...
> 
> 
> On 1/12/14 8:21 PM, Rich Jones wrote:
> > Haters sending anonymous death threats, did you even read the linked paper?
> > Or would you like to see another real world example of coin tumblers
> > failing?
> > http://www.reddit.com/r/SheepMarketplace/comments/1rvlft/i_just_chased_him_through_a_bitcoin_tumbler_and/
> > 
> > Don't be so touchy!
> > 
> > R
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 
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> 
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> 
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