[tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

coderman coderman at gmail.com
Sat Aug 11 06:40:36 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Greg Norcie <greg at norcie.com> wrote:
> I think (but could be wrong) that you can look at a bitcoin's history
> and see who's given to whom and use that data to trace who the person
> is, if they weren't careful.

you're mostly wrong, unless they are incredibly stupid. however recent
monitoring has tried to close the gap and correlate transaction origin
with IP origin, to fuzzy degree.

see also http://blockchain.info/ip-log ,
http://blockchain.info/connected-nodes and their "taint analysis"
feature... unless washed through the bitcoin laundry ;)


> Anyways, those drugs have to get delivered somehow. I could see them
> tracing it that way - old fashioned detective work.

the oldest tricks are the best tricks!


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