Re:The Increasing Trend of Online Extortion
by gregorias on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @07:26AM
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Isn't it possible to trace history of transfers in Bitcoin? I thought the blockchains contained information about transfer from and to account, and that's de facto the way to check account's value - by tracing it's entire history.
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Re:The Increasing Trend of Online Extortion
by throwaway84356 on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @07:59AM
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Yes but you will soon give up once that value hits a mixer/laundry, or an exchange hot wallet. No shortage of either.
Re:The Increasing Trend of Online Extortion
by celticninja on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @08:50AM
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but you never know at which point the coins came into the current owners posession. You could go back 1 step or 100 steps and trace the coins linegae from their creation until today but without knowing who owns all the intermediary addresses youy dont really know anything other than how much was sent when.