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> " Law enforcement was able to trace payments of bitcoin to the Darknet site by following the flow of funds on the blockchain. Separately, Chainalysis said it
by catalogia 7y ago
> " Law enforcement was able to trace payments of bitcoin to the Darknet site by following the flow of funds on the blockchain. Separately, Chainalysis said it was their Chainalysis Reactor software used to analyze the blockchain transactions."
By design, bitcoin uses a public ledger. This sort of investigation being possible shouldn't catch anybody by surprise.
- sixstringtheory 7y agoWouldn't it be amazing if years from now, we found out that Satoshi Nakamoto was an intelligence agent, and that there was a massive state-backed social media campaign to convince the dark web to use Bitcoin, for this very reason?
- mdni007 7y agoIt's an already known fact that Satoshi Nakamoto's real name is Steven Nathaniel and is my uncle who works for Nintendo.
- sixstringtheory 7y agoIf that's true, you could consider updating the Wikipedia page [0] for him! In any case, that's what I get for only checking Wikipedia, but I didn't follow that particular drama closely in the first place. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto