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Re:Miners Aren’t Friends by AlwaysBCoding on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:44AM (#16144943)
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.
Re:Miners Aren’t Friends by wk2jkhkjdfglsl on Sunday January 14, 2018 @12:46PM (#16145265)
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.

Re:Miners Aren’t Friends by Casseres on Sunday January 14, 2018 @12:22PM (#16145127)
Or use Monero which doesn't have transaction histories associated with it.
Re:Miners Aren’t Friends by viraptor on Sunday January 14, 2018 @12:58PM (#16145326)
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.
Re:Miners Aren’t Friends by corford on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:49AM (#16144962)
Haha, hadn't thought of that :) This reason makes sense to me.