Sanitizing Bitcoin: This Company Wants To Track 'Clean' Bitcoin Accounts

Re:Sanitizing Bitcoin: This Company Wants To Track 'Clean' B... by vinchuco on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:29AM (#6730930)

since all Bitcoin transactions are public and pseudonymity given by opaque addresses is our ONLY financial privacy protection, services like this should be considered a direct and malicious attack on Bitcoin system.

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Re:Sanitizing Bitcoin: This Company Wants To Track 'Clean' B... by sliverstorm on Thursday November 14, 2013 @03:38AM (#6731298)

The information is all there, and all public, right from the start. This is no more an attack on Bitcoin, than taking wood from beneath a "Free Wood" sign is theft.

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Re:Sanitizing Bitcoin: This Company Wants To Track 'Clean' B... by VMG on Thursday November 14, 2013 @02:39AM (#6731129)

I agree.

Good thing that Bitcoin flourishes from malicious attacks, otherwise it would have been dead a long ago or would die soon.

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Re:Sanitizing Bitcoin: This Company Wants To Track 'Clean' B... by icecreampain on Thursday November 14, 2013 @02:31AM (#6731100)

Or they're just a bunch of people trying to make a buck which, unfortunately, makes the world go round.

If they manage to establish themselves as LE's provider of Bitcoin info, then they're got a monopoly and a guaranteed income for the rest of their lives.

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