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Re:German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’ by tbrownaw on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:10PM (#35395948)
Isn't almost any online payment method trivially trackable?

Bitcoin (and most other cryptocoins) needs a bit of effort to grovel the public transaction history, and XMR does things that supposedly make that not really work at all, but other than that...

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Re:German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’ by th18row on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:07PM (#35396317)
Bitcoin is perfect for this. Pay someone in cash -> get bitcoin -> pay for this service.

The hardest problem is finding someone to exchange bitcoin for cash, but there are ways. It's no harder than hiring a prostitute. In fact, I've been with prostitutes that accepted crypto.

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Re:German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’ by kortilla on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:21PM (#35396403)
But how do you find the prostitute?
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Re:German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’ by mike_hock on Saturday April 01, 2023 @12:16AM (#35397066)
Asking for a friend?
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Re:German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’ by th18row on Saturday April 01, 2023 @02:54AM (#35397864)
Look for them in an escort site, or, depending on the city you're in, you'll know how to find them. Just make sure they don't have an adams apple bro
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Re:German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’ by bayesian_horse on Saturday April 01, 2023 @12:45AM (#35397222)
You can at least make some people believe bitcoin isn't traceable at all, and it can be quite hard or even impossible to trace if you do it right.
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Re:German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’ by ajsnigrutin on Saturday April 01, 2023 @03:46AM (#35398155)
Considering it's criminals we're talking about here, they can easily use some rasomware attack on a few people and then use those bitcoins to pay for whatever they need, and noone can identify them through bitcoin "traffic".
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Re:German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’ by fiso64 on Saturday April 01, 2023 @04:19AM (#35398363)
>XMR does things that supposedly make that not really work at all

Any source? Can't find anything.

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Re:German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’ by luckylion on Saturday April 01, 2023 @06:30AM (#35399069)
https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/ringsignatur...

I'm not qualified to say whether that actually achieves that goal though

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