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> This is no different than when a bank is robbed and banknotes are stolen. The bank might have written down the numbers of the banknotes and those can be publi
by jonknee 9y ago
> This is no different than when a bank is robbed and banknotes are stolen. The bank might have written down the numbers of the banknotes and those can be published. But most shops won't check those when somebody buys something.
Well it's quite a bit different because everyone has access to the ledger where you can see what "bills" were stolen and can automatically prevent them from being used.
- meritt 9y agoThat's not how it works. Individual satoshis do not have a serial number. As soon as it goes through a mixer, you cannot definitively say which are stolen and which are legit. Bitcoin's blockchain is just a ledger of amounts stored at addresses at points in time.