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Re:$7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just ... by spinny on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @04:57PM (#26812969)
AFAIK exchanges will not accept certain outputs, this is probably based on taint analysis. I believe the FIFO method [1] is the most accurate and probably used by exchanges

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05754.pdf

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Re:$7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just ... by Kinrany on Thursday April 15, 2021 @02:43AM (#26816877)
FIFO would mean that non-tainted funds added after tainted are also locked.
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