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A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

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Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

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Those are random pictures of people not in this indictment just FYI. Your comment is completely off topic.

Indicted. You know, the first step before someone can get convicted?

I know that Russia will never extradite them, and so does Mueller.

Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

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Ultimately, by letting their servers unsecured, the DNC, RNC, and HRC, DTC are fully guilty of nothing [sic][sarcasm] Cough b.s. DNC needs to sober up and admit defeat ahead of the RNC hack releases. Right now the hilarious Trump Derangement Disorder they're suffering from will only continue to promote inequality.

Bad security maybe, but facing a state sponsored and determined attack and I'm not sure given enough time that any security is enough.

We're already at a point where security researchers question if you can ever declare any device "clean" simply due to the complexity of devices and attacks.

Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

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Great, 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 criti…

Next time you want to frame someone, send money simultaneously to them AND to the Bitcoin address cited in the article, and they'll be linked to a Russian conspiracy...

If they find evidence the wallet owner communicated with you to send the money and then used the transaction to pay for goods and services used in the course of a criminal act, then you might be in trouble. Otherwise, I don't see why you think it would be viewed as anything but a stupid prank.

Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

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Great, 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 criti…

Or just pick someone and watch the chain and send the appropriate emails. I used to do that in a weird way with a lightly paranoid coworker (he wasn't battling mental illness or anything, he was fine). He did have a lot of concerns about e-privacy in the 90s (legit forward thinking stuff) and I would send him emails through open mail relays like whitehouse.gov and such "Hey man I dropped off all the magic white powde…

Hahaha, I like how much you justify him being okay

Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

#45
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That's not counterpoint, it's just typical right wing propaganda.

why is right full of 'typical' propaganda while left is honest ppl with verifiable facts. seems curious

The "left" are good at circular quotations. They are also in complete control of Wikipedia, Snopes, and a few other "authoritative" websites.

Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

#46

I 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).

How do you trace mined coins?

Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

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post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just pick someone and watch the chain and send the appropriate emails. I used to do that in a weird way with a lightly paranoid coworker (he wasn't battling mental illness or anything, he was fine). He did have a lot of concerns about e-privacy in the 90s (legit forward thinking stuff) and I would send him emails through open mail relays like whitehouse.gov and such "Hey man I dropped off all the magic white powde…

Hahaha, I like how much you justify him being okay

Well I said paranoid... didn't want anyone to think he was in a clinical sense.

Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

#48

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it's about as untraceable as cash. If you pick some up anonymously, then use a different address for each transaction, all while obfuscating your connection using Tor or the like, your transactions should be difficult to trace.

You don't have to do any of that with cash.

Really? you think cash that you withdraw from the ATM is not traceable to you?

Re: A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

#49
post #46

I 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).

How do you trace mined coins?

Watch the markets and exchanges.
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