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"one could easily blacklist stolen bitcoins" Who will create this blacklist? "I guess you can't have anonymity and accountability..." Actually, you can: htt
by betterunix 13y ago
"one could easily blacklist stolen bitcoins"
Who will create this blacklist?
"I guess you can't have anonymity and accountability..."
Actually, you can:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F0-387-34799-2_25 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F0-387-34799-2_25
- maxerickson 13y agoOne possible group would be a consortium of parties that are interesting to transact with. Say Paypal decided to mess around, they might have a blacklist. People that received tainted coins could repudiate them with high fee transactions to invalid addresses (so that most of the coins go back into the network as mining fees). I guess 'invalid address' is the wrong language, but you get the idea, an address with no private key.
- zaidf 13y agoBitcoin was supposed to help fix problems like PayPal holding payments. This seems to make bitcoin vulnerable to it.