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There are not public lists, with exception of official government sanctioned addresses. Only the chain analysis companies have the (valuable) data so the future

There are not public lists, with exception of official government sanctioned addresses. Only the chain analysis companies have the (valuable) data so the future seems to be that businesses will need to pay for a subscription and share data with them, if you want to transact BTC. The algorithms are not clear either, because that information could be used by adversaries with tainted coins to try to evade detection For this reason I would suggest using btcpayserver to only accept monero, since it is fungible like cash; for other cryptocurrencies I just don't know how to check if you're dealing with sanctioned entities etc without a middleman

folli 5y ago
so much for decentralization...
- arcticbull 5y ago
  1 BTC = 1 BTC, how much USD each one is worth varies due to its inherent lack of fungibility. 1 BTC is better thought of as a booster pack of 100,000,000 NFTs.
  - arcticbull 5y ago
    Curious the downvotes, the thread is discussing how the prior history of a bitcoin can cause it to be worth less in some contexts. The different value of the same asset based on its history is the definition of non-fungible in the classical sense. If one satoshi can be "tainted" by its history it is not equivalent to any other satoshi. Lack of equivalence = non-fungible. Now Zcash and Monero would be fungible.
    - mousepilot 5y ago
      Glad it was still dark enough to read, I had no idea some lumps of bitcoin are worth less because of a wallet they touched. Thats an incredible flaw, and really a big downside of bitcoin.
joshmarlow 5y ago
I'm still wrapping my head around the concept of Coin Mixing, but I wonder how helpful that would be - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/coinjoin.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/coinjoin.asp
- ajkdhcb2 5y ago
  If you accidentally accept funds linked to a sanctioned terrorist address or something, and then mix the money... I hope you have a good lawyer

folli 5y ago

so much for decentralization...

arcticbull 5y ago
1 BTC = 1 BTC, how much USD each one is worth varies due to its inherent lack of fungibility. 1 BTC is better thought of as a booster pack of 100,000,000 NFTs.
- arcticbull 5y ago
  Curious the downvotes, the thread is discussing how the prior history of a bitcoin can cause it to be worth less in some contexts. The different value of the same asset based on its history is the definition of non-fungible in the classical sense. If one satoshi can be "tainted" by its history it is not equivalent to any other satoshi. Lack of equivalence = non-fungible. Now Zcash and Monero would be fungible.
  - mousepilot 5y ago
    Glad it was still dark enough to read, I had no idea some lumps of bitcoin are worth less because of a wallet they touched. Thats an incredible flaw, and really a big downside of bitcoin.

joshmarlow 5y ago

I'm still wrapping my head around the concept of Coin Mixing, but I wonder how helpful that would be - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/coinjoin.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/coinjoin.asp

ajkdhcb2 5y ago
If you accidentally accept funds linked to a sanctioned terrorist address or something, and then mix the money... I hope you have a good lawyer