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I'm surprised they were table to track the laundering, given it sounds like they used a lot of different wallets.
by misiti3780 4y ago
I'm surprised they were table to track the laundering, given it sounds like they used a lot of different wallets.
- WJW 4y agoI wonder how many wallets you would need before it becomes a problem to track. I would guess in the millions or more since graph algorithms are pretty efficient these days.
- voakbasda 4y agoAnd there is the issue that what is inefficient today may become efficient tomorrow. The blockchain will be there waiting for new forensic techniques.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y agoHow long of a linked list do you need to be unable to reach its tail?
- mccorrinall 4y agoThere are exchanges which allow transactions from e.g bitcoin to monero. As soon as you’re on such a private chain, you most likely broke the link.
- WJW 4y agoI was thinking more along the lines of a directed graph where each of the wallets pass the funding received to multiple other wallets before the money finally converges to a destination wallet, it doesn't have to be a straight linked-list style line of wallets. In any case, the transaction costs alone probably makes this prohibitive for more than a few dozen wallets.
- kkielhofner 4y agoCompanies like Chainalysis and TRM have contracts with almost every federal law enforcement agency. They make this kind of analysis almost trivial.