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They could buy Monero or some other anonymous cryptocurrency.
by snakeanus 9y ago
They could buy Monero or some other anonymous cryptocurrency.
- GordonS 9y agoNo exchange is going to touch BTC from these addresses. If they send the coins to an exchange, the exchange is going to contact law enforcement and they have lost their coins.
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- eigenvalue 9y agoDo you know this for a fact? Do big exchanges really maintain a list of "blacklisted" addresses? Wouldn't they need to constantly be growing that list to include the destinations of any transactions originating from the blacklisted addresses?
- GordonS 9y agoThey would probably only need to blacklist addresses from major thefts likely to have legal implications. I don't think it's a big task to keep it updated. The big exchanges are making a lot of money, so it would seem incredibly ill-advised for exchanges not to do this - the risks are simply far too high.
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- GordonS 9y agoDownvoter care to comment? Do you seriously think the big exchanges would take that risk?
- snakeanus 9y agoWhich is why they would either use a darknet exchange and/or convert the coins in small batches each time.
- GordonS 9y agoThat protects the identity of the sender - but it doesn't protect the addresses they came from. We know which addresses the WannaCry ransoms were paid to - whether a small or large amount is sent to an exchange, the source address would be blacklisted.