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How I understand it, please correct me if I'm wrong : All transactions are visible, sure, but Bitcoin also enables mass dilution and mass money washing. Let's
by antpls 5y ago
How I understand it, please correct me if I'm wrong :
All transactions are visible, sure, but Bitcoin also enables mass dilution and mass money washing.
Let's say there is a bitcoin address A on which you have identified that 50% of the Bitcoins are legit, and 50% came from a suspicious flagged address B.
Now what? Do you also flag A as "suspicious". What if A also made thausands other payments, do you flag all the recipients as suspicious?
Let's say you are drastic and your external system only allows payments from the addresses with a 100% verifiable and clean history. Now all I have to do as an attacker is to make a payment to your address from a flagged address I own, and all your bitcoins are also now flagged for life.
You quickly end up flagging the whole address base as suspicious, because there is no way to :
- block deposit
- differentiate Bitcoin X from Bitcoin Z
I guess something like smart contracts could change the rules, but that would be a completely new network and token
Or am I missing something ?
- rax0m 5y agoYou are missing the concept of a UTXO, but that's a bit besides the point. You are in general correct. However, there is currently no market price difference for "untainted coins". Some are expecting a secondary market to appear, some are not. A lot to uncover in this area!
- throw4738 5y agoThat is not how anti money laundering works. Person has to prove their income is clean, there is no presumption of innocence.