Re:Miners Aren’t Friends
by AlwaysBCoding on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:44AM
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If you're buying stuff on darknet markets it's nice to be able to do it with freshly mined coins that don't have transaction histories associated with them.
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Re:Miners Aren’t Friends
by wk2jkhkjdfglsl on Sunday January 14, 2018 @12:46PM
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This would only apply to solo-mined block rewards. If you use a mining pool, there is a coin trail through the pool. The pool likely has the IP address records of your miners and can link these to your payout transaction.
Mined coin is only just a little less traceable than exchange purchased coin.
Or use Monero which doesn't have transaction histories associated with it.
Why does it matter? Once you do the transfer, why would anyone refuse to send you the goods? It's not like they can reverse the transaction - only send back the equivalent amount in the best case.