On 17 March 2015 at 02:55, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]>
> wrote:

>> Bitcoin is not untraceable.
>> An adversary capable enough to eavesdrop on dissidents' communication
>> making them need Tor should be capable of tracing the publicly available
>> bitcoin transaction logs back from the payment to the proxy owner to the
>> originating non-anonymous financial transaction used to purchase the
>> bitcoins.

> I'll admit not knowing much about bitcoin security, but isn't that what
> mixers are for?


Pretty much nothing about Bitcoin works as advertised in the hype,
except irreversibility of transactions (which works all too well).
Everything will apparently be fixed later.


- d.

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