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Thank you for the paper. But did you read it? Bitcoin Fog works, and the paper goes into detail about why it works. In the Silk Road investigation, the inves
by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Thank you for the paper. But did you read it? Bitcoin Fog works, and the paper goes into detail about why it works.
In the Silk Road investigation, the investigators basically threw up their hands and said "don't bother trying to analyze the transaction graph." So there's some evidence that tumblers are effective in practice.
- betterunix 13y agoI do not think the takeaway is that Bitcoin Fog works; rather, it is that Bitcoin Fog protects you from the specific strategy used by the authors of the paper. Another approach might work against Bitcoin Fog. "In the Silk Road investigation, the investigators basically threw up their hands and said "don't bother trying to analyze the transaction graph." So apparently tumblers are effective in practice." Do you have a citation about mixing services specifically thwarting investigators? Maybe the investigators felt that Bitcoin itself was too much to deal with. It would not be the first time a law enforcement agency has pointed to a system with little-to-no security and claimed that they cannot attack it.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoDo you have an email I could reach you at?
- betterunix 13y agoSure, but is there a less public way for me to give it to you?
- sillysaurus2 13y agoYou can email me... I'll just delete this comment after you do. My email is sillysaurus2 at gmail.