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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by arca_vorago on Thursday October 17, 2013 @06:25PM (#6568575)
Actually bitcoin has many strengths, but anonymity is not one of them. There have been multiple papers that go into how easy it is to trace, and even laundering style services like SRO used aren't very good.

http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-3.pdf http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf

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