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Everyone says this, and I have repeated the mantra, but I am curious how one would go about following a trail of bitcoin transactions. Lets say you intercept a
by glomph 13y ago
Everyone says this, and I have repeated the mantra, but I am curious how one would go about following a trail of bitcoin transactions. Lets say you intercept a drug deal, know the final bitcoin address that money goes into. So you have that info.
You can also follow the trail back arbitrarily far getting address after address. How does this net you anyone more information? How would you 'convert back' into a human name or address?
- stfu 13y agoWould be interested in that too. What if I just hold me bitcoin wallet locally and and create ids for "critical" transactions that I use only through public internet access points.
- maxerickson 13y agoThere are lots of systems with address-information associations. Collecting that information is going to yield lots of human names. Something like the Coinbase merchant pages contained a surprising amount of information, and they were intentionally published.
- glomph 13y agoPresumably Law Enforcement couldn't compel Coinbase to disclose all the names they had though? They would need some kind of probable cause?
- gojomo 13y agoHow? See my response to eridius in sibling comment.