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Re:$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GB... by maxerickson on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @08:12AM (#6717550)
One possible group would be a consortium of parties that are interesting to transact with. Say Paypal decided to mess around, they might have a blacklist.

People that received tainted coins could repudiate them with high fee transactions to invalid addresses (so that most of the coins go back into the network as mining fees). I guess 'invalid address' is the wrong language, but you get the idea, an address with no private key.

Re:$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GB... by zaidf on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @04:54PM (#6721488)
Bitcoin was supposed to help fix problems like PayPal holding payments. This seems to make bitcoin vulnerable to it.