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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers (kianbradley.com)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I imagine the part in the article where OPP destroyed the vps and cancelled the domain because he realized he paid for the vps with his credit card?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Crypto is not anonymous, the entire concept of how it works is to be the worlds most public and distributed transaction ledger. It is more difficult to track than credit card transactions, but that's a very big difference from being impossible to track. There have been multiple papers published at this point on how you can de-anonymize any crypto purchase.

    People really need to get over this idea that using crypto to buy things makes you anonymous.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    Some crypto, like Monero, is anonymous. Bitcoin/Ethereum is not.

    In any case, if you use anonymous crypto, make sure to first sent it to a wallet (preferably with a subaddress in case of Monero), and then send it elsewhere.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Crypto can be anonymous, if you use the right cryptocurrency and do things correctly. "Crypto" is a very broad term. Different cryptocurrencies have different functions and purposes.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You know, except for Monero. Really sucks that real private anonymous internet money is getting pushed out of all places possible, while crap like Bitcoin freely exists.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Exactly. That's why you had to fill out all the KYC paperwork when you create your Bitcoin wallet.

    Oh, you didn't?

    Crypto is not hidden, but it can be anonymous. You can't hide that you got money from X account and spent it at Y account. But there's no name tied to the transaction.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Where did the coin come from? Unless you mined it yourself, you've left a trail that may eventually lead to you. Even using crypto ATMs, you're still on surveillance and hoping the tapes/drives roll over before someone comes knocking (which is a very likely bet to win), and even then, you still have a real world location to tie the wallet to because of where the transaction originated.

    Anything that interacts with the real world can anchor your identity to your wallet. Travelling out of state can help obfuscate that to an extent, but a high level adversary will be able to correlate travel with that transaction as well.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    People really need to get over this idea that using crypto to buy things makes you anonymous.

    And people should also know that there are privacy coins and mixers

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I might be mistaken, but isn’t using a mixer considered money laundering in the US?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    USA also claimed they owned all BTC that went through dark net markets. I don’t care what they think about X or Y thing

    But yea that would be considered ML in many countries because you’re hiding the links and making it seem like normal money, which it should be imo

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