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> "Washington DC Field Office Cyber Crimes Unit analyzed the blockchain and de-anonymized bitcoin transactions allowing for the identification of two different
by varenc 6y ago
> "Washington DC Field Office Cyber Crimes Unit analyzed the blockchain and de-anonymized bitcoin transactions allowing for the identification of two different hackers"
- zionic 6y agoShould have used Monero lol
- Shared404 6y agoGot to love government knowledge of tech. This is the set of people that legislators listen to. I think we may be screwed.
- shadowgovt 6y agoI'm not sure what your criticism of the quote means here. The biggest weakness of BTC for criminal enterprise is the fact that every transaction must be logged to a global public ledger. The hard part is aligning the public keys with private keys, but if you have enough additional information (such as, say, the private keys' owners sitting in a prison cell and the private keys themselves flayed out of their unencrypted hard drives), it's trivial to prove the money flowed from one user to another. The quote seems accurate.
- Shared404 6y agoI know the quote was accurate. I thought it was common knowledge that bitcoin is not anonymous, therefore making "de-anonymized the bitcoin transactions" a bit of an overstatement.
- shadowgovt 6y agoAh, now I follow. I assume they intended "de-anonymized" to mean "tied the public keys to identifiable human beings IRL."
- Shared404 6y agoNo hard feelings. That's certainly an understandable take, and I'm probably just overly pessimistic.
- tolbish 6y agoIt is and it isn't. Hacker News is anonymous until someone ties your username to your identity.