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A Bitcoin transaction between two parties is itself pretty obscure. As others have said, "mixing" techniques like CoinJoin [0] allow for much greater obscurity.
by chejazi 11y ago
A Bitcoin transaction between two parties is itself pretty obscure. As others have said, "mixing" techniques like CoinJoin [0] allow for much greater obscurity. The big misunderstanding is with services that use Bitcoin; for example, the agreement to send $50k in Bitcoin was probably in a message log in a Silk Road database.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoinJoin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoinJoin
- ocb 11y agoAs far as I know, all dark net markets (including Silk Road when it was around) strongly recommend that you encrypt all text containing sensitive information using PGP. They don't force you to, though.
- chejazi 11y agoIf PGP was used, I wonder with what security each party guarded their PGP key. I could imagine DPR's PGP key getting compromised following his arrest. This would reveal half of the conversation -- likely enough to spawn an investigation of the DEA agent.