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Re:Sheep Marketplace closes after theft of £3m in bitcoins by judk on Monday December 02, 2013 @10:42AM (#6834290)
Is blockchain.info set up as an effective store of consensus around tracking "evil" addresses? If not, is anyone else doing that (publicly)? I am sure the NSA and cousins are studying the blockchain carefully.
Re:Sheep Marketplace closes after theft of £3m in bitcoins by easy_rider on Monday December 02, 2013 @04:43PM (#6836746)
Well, I don't own BTC myself, am not in the BTC community and I'm not NSA even :) But judging by what the internets says. Yeah, this seems to be the the case in the BTC community to monitor and track suspicious activity. I've also seen a 00666 BTC transaction being used as a community effort to mark the blockchain. The number in the amount should need no further elaboration for the intention. That