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It might be foolhardy to assume that BTC transactions are anonymous, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be EXTREMELY EXTREMELY EXTREMELY difficult to figure
by aagha 13y ago
It might be foolhardy to assume that BTC transactions are anonymous, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be EXTREMELY EXTREMELY EXTREMELY difficult to figure out who was involved.
- betterunix 13y agoWhen it is such a large amount of money, it is not all that difficult. Just look for the guy who is $147M richer. In other words, the only way you get to have the money is if you never spend it, except in minuscule amounts.
- bunderbunder 13y agoCase in point: Supposedly the money from a lot of cases of major Bitcoin theft is still sitting in the same wallets. Implication: The thieves are having a hard time figuring out how to spend the money without outing themselves.
- gala8y 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6786416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6786416 from 30 minutes ago. Here’s who (probably) did that massive $150,000,000 Bitcoin transaction (washingtonpost.com) From the article: "Who was responsible for the transaction? I asked Sarah Meiklejohn, a computer scientist at the University of California, San Diego, for her thoughts. She's the author of a recent paper demonstrating that sophisticated analysis can reveal a lot of information about who is responsible for Bitcoin transactions. She has combined a large database of Bitcoin addresses tagged with their likely owners." Link to the paper is provided.