Re:Forum reactions to Satoshi's Bitcoin paper
by dotBen on Friday February 23, 2024 @03:16PM
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No because whether he owns a bitcoin at $30 or at $30k a bitcoin is a bitcoin and at this point every wallet is indexed, tracked and any wallet with significant value (regardless of cost basis) is being mined for potential vulnerabilities.
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Re:Forum reactions to Satoshi's Bitcoin paper
by ziddoap on Friday February 23, 2024 @03:57PM
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>at this point every wallet is indexed, tracked and any wallet with significant value (regardless of cost basis) is being mined for potential vulnerabilities.
The point being made is that once a wallet is connected to a real identity (as opposed to just knowing that wallet X has Y amount of BTC), the attack surface for that wallet is increased by magnitudes and entire vectors of attack are opened up (e.g. phishing).