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Bitcoin isn't anonymous, and if the NSA has infiltrated the various Bitcoin whitewashers (er, "exchanges") it also has your incoming transaction history, to boo
by codex 13y ago
Bitcoin isn't anonymous, and if the NSA has infiltrated the various Bitcoin whitewashers (er, "exchanges") it also has your incoming transaction history, to boot.
- Tloewald 13y agoBitcoin, like Tor, is essentially a honeypot for surveillance. Better to hide out in plain sight in my opinion.
- eloisius 13y agoWhat evidence have you got that Tor is a surveillance honeypot?
- rsync 13y agoNever forget: ToR is funded by the US government.
- sillysaurus 13y agoSo?
- narsil 13y agoIf you control both the tor entrance and exit nodes, you can unmask the user. Statistically, controlling 300 nodes (~1% of the network) should be enough to unmask a large number of users. It is not hard to spin up a whole bunch of servers to the mix, and I would find it very hard to believe that the NSA/similar does not already control a substantial portion of the network.
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- Ihmahr 13y agoBuy bitcoin for cash, preferably from someone you don't know.
- qwertzlcoatl 13y agoLocalBitcoins.com might come in handy here.