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You can track the individual transactions. So if I have some tainted coins and I really do not like you. I know your main wallet and transfer 1$ worth of tainte

You can track the individual transactions. So if I have some tainted coins and I really do not like you. I know your main wallet and transfer 1$ worth of tainted coins to you. You can just transfer the tainted coins out of the wallet and that is it - the rest of the coins in your wallet are perfectly fine. That said, tainting is not a path we want to go down. The potential for abuse is enormous, and rendering more and more coins useless.

aktiur 13y ago
Except bitcoins are completely fungible. Once the bitcoin is transferred in the wallet, you can no longer make any difference with the other bitcoins in the wallet ; it has no distinct identity anymore. Think transaction into a bank account : you cannot separate the money that was transfered in from what was already there. We can taint accounts, but not individual coins.
- hvidgaard 13y ago
  You know exactly what input transactions contains tainted coins, so you know the amount, and thus how many untainted coins there are.
  - SkyMarshal 13y ago
    But when you transfer BTC out, even if it's in the exact amount of the tainted coins transferred in, how do you decide whether the outgoing coins represent the tainted ones or the untainted ones? Say there's a 50 BTC untainted wallet, and tainted 1 BTC is transferred in, then 1 BTC is transferred out. How do you decide whether that outgoing 1 BTC was drawn on the tainted portion or the untainted portion of the account?
    - Shaanie 13y ago
      Always regards the last bitcoins as the tainted ones. Local wallets could simply treat tainted bitcoins as not existing, thus removing that annoyance too.
    - Shaanie 13y ago
      Always regards the last bitcoins as the tainted ones. Local wallets could simply treat tainted bitcoins as not existing, thus removing that annoyance too.
    - Shaanie 13y ago
      Always regards the last bitcoins as the tainted ones. Local wallets could simply treat tainted bitcoins as not existing, thus removing that annoyance too.

aktiur 13y ago

Except bitcoins are completely fungible. Once the bitcoin is transferred in the wallet, you can no longer make any difference with the other bitcoins in the wallet ; it has no distinct identity anymore. Think transaction into a bank account : you cannot separate the money that was transfered in from what was already there. We can taint accounts, but not individual coins.

hvidgaard 13y ago
You know exactly what input transactions contains tainted coins, so you know the amount, and thus how many untainted coins there are.
- SkyMarshal 13y ago
  But when you transfer BTC out, even if it's in the exact amount of the tainted coins transferred in, how do you decide whether the outgoing coins represent the tainted ones or the untainted ones? Say there's a 50 BTC untainted wallet, and tainted 1 BTC is transferred in, then 1 BTC is transferred out. How do you decide whether that outgoing 1 BTC was drawn on the tainted portion or the untainted portion of the account?
  - Shaanie 13y ago
    Always regards the last bitcoins as the tainted ones. Local wallets could simply treat tainted bitcoins as not existing, thus removing that annoyance too.
  - Shaanie 13y ago
    Always regards the last bitcoins as the tainted ones. Local wallets could simply treat tainted bitcoins as not existing, thus removing that annoyance too.
  - Shaanie 13y ago
    Always regards the last bitcoins as the tainted ones. Local wallets could simply treat tainted bitcoins as not existing, thus removing that annoyance too.