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Re:The U.S. Cracked a $3.4B Crypto Heist–and Bitcoin’s Anony... by acdha on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:58PM (#35550336)
Exactly - and that’s especially true if laws or other things change. For example, suppose that you made a donation to the political party which lost a key election to an authoritarian – are you sleeping easy at night wondering whether they have a data mining team?
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Re:The U.S. Cracked a $3.4B Crypto Heist–and Bitcoin’s Anony... by cgriswald on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:23AM (#35550933)
In your hypothetical scenario, I think I would sleep easier having tried to stop it, then to be in the same world but having done nothing to stop it.

There's no real alternative. You rely on the secrets technology we currently have, knowing it might not be future-proof for your entire lifetime, or you don't use secrets technology at all (and I guess live in fear of all possible futures?)

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Re:The U.S. Cracked a $3.4B Crypto Heist–and Bitcoin’s Anony... by midasuni on Thursday April 13, 2023 @03:01AM (#35552038)
The chance of somebody storing my WireGuard traffic from a local public hotspot to be able to hopefully decode it at some point in the future is far less than someone sniffing dns and http traffic I send from the same hotspot today.

The value of breaking my communication now compared with in 10 years time is far higher too. My bank will have destroyed the records of my dealings in a decades time for example.

Bitcoin’s ledger is specifically designed to be kept forever though. You don’t need to target me today in the how if future payoff

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Re:The U.S. Cracked a $3.4B Crypto Heist–and Bitcoin’s Anony... by lurkshark on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:56AM (#35552002)
I get the point you’re trying to convey but - at least in the US - you’re legally required to make donations to political candidates publicly anyway, so this isn’t really a regression over the status quo.
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Re:The U.S. Cracked a $3.4B Crypto Heist–and Bitcoin’s Anony... by jmopp on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:21AM (#35552515)
That's why you make your anonymous donation to the "Friends of John Smith" organisation, who is completely unaffiliated with John Smith and is merely interested in seeing him elected to office
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