ShoqIt wasn’t journalists, tech bros, and influencers who made the Internet a thing. It was librarians, scientists, educators, and programmers.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@shoq And pornographers. Don't forget the pornographers.
BenAveling@msbellows @shoq they’re always the pioneers. When they couldn’t find a use for bitcoin, that’s when I knew for certain it was hype.
Ted Garrison@BenAveling
Exactly. It's THE place for anonymous transactions, and they still don't use it...
@msbellows @shoq
Exactly. It's THE place for anonymous transactions, and they still don't use it...
@msbellows @shoq
Daniël Franke 🏳️🌈@Tedgarrison3 @BenAveling @msbellows @shoq
It was never really anonymous, having a fully public, immutable ledger is very much the opposite of that.
@shoq @Tedgarrison3 @ainmosni @msbellows It’s kind of neither but also kind of both of those things.
With just the wallet ID, you can trace every transaction, but you don’t know who owns the wallet. Unless you can work out who performed any of those transactions, and then, most likely, the same party performed all of the rest also.
@BenAveling the thing is, given some knowledge about a person, it's not hard to find the owner of a wallet.
@ainmosni you'd need something to link the two, there's just too many wallets and too many people. But that something could be something as simple as a transaction with another wallet suspected to be owned by a suspected contact.
Or knowing the target received transactions from X, and likes to buy stuff at Y and Z. This will become easier the more actual traffic use it (ignoring that any non-play use will just not scale) as you will have more and more metadata to trace.
@ainmosni Yes, exactly. It may start off anonymous, but it's very hard to both use it and have it stay anonymous.