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I'm not a forensic accountant. This like someone pointing out that there are doctors who can cure a mild infection and then demanding that person heal your inf

• olalonde 4y ago
  You said that you could in your comment: > It's only "anonymous until use". If you transfer some amount to me, I can then retroactively find its source, and likely find a good deal of information about you and the other wallets you've used. Regardless, obviously you can't. And no forensic accountant can either. I think you're just misinformed. You can draw some unreliable statistical relationships between adresses but that's it. And schemes like CoinJoin makes that sort of analysis even more irrelevant.
  • etchalon 4y ago
    There's an entire industry of people and court filings that disagree with you.
    • olalonde 4y ago
      So we've gone from "you", to a "forensic accountant" and now to "law enforcement". If by industry, you mean blockchain analysis software vendors, I'm well aware of them. It is snake oil meant to tick an AML checkbox and appear as though you are doing something to fight money laundering. It's pure security theater. Regarding law enforcement, they can't simply link Bitcoin addresses to real identities. It's just not possible. What happens is that some criminals are dumb enough to volunteer their real identity to exchanges and get caught that way.