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A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment
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#12A skeptic's counterpoint: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/19/establishm...
That is not a "counterpoint" to anything, there is zero mention of bitcoin, blockchain or anything cryptocurrency related within. I think it's pretty clear you're here to push a political agenda.
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#13Wow, they’re even pulling bitcoin into this witch hunt! None of this changes the fact that Bitcoin is the real occupy wallstreet movement. The world needs a money which can protect us from central banks. Bitcoin is it.
Odd how you made this account 8 minutes ago to attempt to discredit this idea
Hacker news has a shadow banning problem. Unpopular opinions are downvoted into oblivion. Then your posts start going into the void.
Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment
#14A skeptic's counterpoint: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/19/establishm...
That says nothing about this article, which is basically "lol, I can do trivial financial analysis to strip the anonymity of Bitcoin. Think how much more information government experts at tracking money laundering have."
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#15Details on count 10 are pretty damning. They managed to correlate their various sources of information pretty well. There's not much to say, they managed to tie a wallet address to a person/ip address and were able to trace a surprising amount of attempted money laundering that way.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
The site you linked: Strategic Culture Foundation, a Moscow think tank run by Yuri Profokiev, a former head of Moscow’s Communist Party and member of the Soviet Politburo.
And happens to be strongly pro-Trump. How curious.
Really? this article[1] doesn't seem pro-Trump at all.
[1]https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/18/stripping-...
Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment
#17Great, now I know how to frame someone using Bitcoin.
1. Select a victim 2. Every time you are about to make a Bitcoin transaction, send an email to the victim's address requesting the amount you are about to send. (Bonus point if you can get directly into the spam folder.) 3. Send bitcoins as you intended to do.
Now lay back and wait for your victim to be linked to your shady activities.
(I'm writing this as a critique of the technique used and conclusions reached in the article. Hopefully the investigation has something more robust.)
Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment
#18I have to imagine that the first person at the FBI (or whichever agency is responsible for tracking money laundering) to come across bitcoin fell out of their chair laughing when they came across it. It's a protocol that has a public, dated, irrefutable log of every transaction made... and its users think it untraceable (or at least, they thought it untraceable back when it first came out).
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#19The only problem is there is no way to prove that that address actually belongs to the GRU.
The transaction referenced in the indictment clearly happened, but Mueller and his team could have easily searched through the Bitcoin blockchain to find any transaction that paid for a VPN, hosting, or domain registration using Bitcoin on or around the date of the hack.
The indictment makes it sound like the request for 0.026043 BTC came via email. I think that is a bit strange. If you are Russian Military Intelligence about to hack the government of the United States, why would you include references and payment info related to your Bitcoin transactions in hundreds of emails? Surely just keeping track of the Bitcoin addresses on the blockchain would be enough since that is the entire point of the Blockchain. Keeping a reference via email sounds like a good plot for an episode of America’s Dumbest Criminals, not the Russian military.
It is certainly possible that this is exactly what happened, but I think the American people deserve to see some evidence.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Odd how you made this account 8 minutes ago to attempt to discredit this idea
Hacker news has a shadow banning problem. Unpopular opinions are downvoted into oblivion. Then your posts start going into the void.
I mean if your speech cannot survive in a free marketplace of ideas...