On 17 March 2015 at 02:55, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Daniel Friesen daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com 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.