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Re:Ask HN: Where are the 750k Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox? by d0ugie on Friday February 28, 2014 @10:53AM (#7319410)
Wouldn't, in this high profile clustereff, somehow tracking down those bitcoins cause bitcoin in general more harm than good? Would it not highlight that one way or another, either by fault of bitcoin or human error, that like Tor it is not bulletproof in terms of anonymity and susceptibility to being taken back from someone, whether that someone is a good or bad guy?
Re:Ask HN: Where are the 750k Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox? by loceng on Friday February 28, 2014 @11:11AM (#7319578)
Taken back? Finding a person is one thing - you need a lot of resources to track a person down - then trying to find where they may have hidden the keys needed to use the Bitcoin is another. People who have stolen millions of real dollars are still able to just hide the cash or money in off-shore accounts. Similar problems exist, though it doesn't start off anonymously. It's not really good or bad, it just is. We need to manage for best case scenario, and structure systems to provide best case scenarios. Controlled or rather fully-manageable ecosystems are the best, though they have the ability to be badly managed and through political lobbying, etc. cause a whole series of problems in a society.
Re:Ask HN: Where are the 750k Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox? by gizmo686 on Friday February 28, 2014 @05:17PM (#7321924)
To be clear, Bitcoin is not supposed to be anonymous. The centerpiece of its design is a publicly view-able log of every transaction ever made.