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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by toast0 on Monday September 09, 2019 @06:27PM (#20923165)
You can be careful to not comingle funds or participate in KYC, but you have no forward security --- the person you paid (or their successor payees) can always comingle funds or participate in KYC. At which point, they may recall you paid them.

Also, I can't imagine it's very convenient to manage a large number of separate keys.

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by lixtra on Monday September 09, 2019 @11:35PM (#20924831)
> Also, I can't imagine it's very convenient to manage a large number of separate keys.

You can have one secret master key and then derive many keys from that [1]. Without the master key you cannot tell that they are linked. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_derivation_function

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by icebraining on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:51AM (#20925978)
> Also, I can't imagine it's very convenient to manage a large number of separate keys.

A computer can do that for you.

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by perl4ever on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @10:14PM (#20947114)
I find the more things I do with a computer, the more there are to manage, not less.

...what is a "system administrator" anyway, and why is my computer telling me to ask them for help?

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