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Shouldn't Bitcoin have given him magic immunity? All the people who transacted on Silk Road, do you think they should sleep well at night? Or do they all nervo
by paulsutter 12y ago
Shouldn't Bitcoin have given him magic immunity?
All the people who transacted on Silk Road, do you think they should sleep well at night? Or do they all nervously await the statute of limitations expiration?
You don't think the FBI has the blockchain loaded into Palantir where they can map all those transactions against all the other data they have? The more traces you leave behind the greater the chance for that one slip up that links it all together.
Maybe the seller slips up and orders a pizza from the wrong wallet. Now they have him, and using the post office scan data they got you. Add as much complexity as you like, there's a way to unravel it. And you can't go back and take it out of the blockchain.
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- olalonde 12y ago> Shouldn't Bitcoin have given him magic immunity? No, why do you think that'd be the case? > All the people who transacted on Silk Road, do you think they should sleep well at night? Probably not. But certainly not because the FBI will track them through the blockchain, that's just ridiculous. There's absolutely no way to prove someone owns Bitcoins unless you get access to their wallet.