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Tainted coins (stolen from hacks or whatever) can be tracked forever on a public ledger. If you send some of them to a known address of your adversary, tracking
by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
Tainted coins (stolen from hacks or whatever) can be tracked forever on a public ledger. If you send some of them to a known address of your adversary, tracking software with start tracking those coins as well, especially if he'll manage to spend coins from your input together with his existing coins. So, he'll have problems down the road.
- nlitened 5y agoBut you can just “taint” coins that are already on that known address, since you already know that the address belongs to the adversary. If I understand correctly, “dusting” is only useful for empty addresses, when you want to track who owns them, because if they remain empty forever, you have no means to know.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoTainting is not for tracking, but for making the adversary's funds marked as 'problematic'.
- nlitened 5y agoAh, so it’s like sending a satoshi known to be involved in trading drugs, to make adversary’s account linked to illegal activity?