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I find this kind of black hat cybercrime stuff fascinating. If I wanted to learn more about it (just for learning sake) what would be some good resources?
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Can they handle monthly subscriptions?
I learned about privacy.com here on HN and it has been very helpful for me. You can create virtual cards for single-use or recurring payments. Each card can only be used by one vendor. You also set a max amount.
Are these idiots really still using bitcoin for doing shady stuff lol? Bitcoin can totally be traced. Most people using it are so weak in terms of their security.
BTC is really "psuedoanonymous" because while you can certainly trace my transactions if you know a wallet address, you still have no idea who or where I am as long as I do not reveal that wallet to be connected to any "real world" identity.
This is still not easy though. For example, if you're serious then you must only transmit transactions within Tor, otherwise the originating IP may single you out. Ideally you should use different wallets for each transactions, and only pool them together after they have each been converted to XMR or similar.
There's lots of gotchas but frankly it's a decent system.
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I don't know anything about Bitcoin. Am I an idiot?
No, that's an unwarranted extrapolation of what I said.
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This is a solved problem, really, some banks are less keen on implementing it: generate single use / single purpose credit card numbers in your ebank / mobile app. Leaks are total useless. Also, more than a decade ago already many European banks were sending a text SMS above a treshold and only approved on a positive reply. Today you'd likely offer sending a push notification. You have 16 digits on a Visa/MasterCard,…
Bank of America has discontinued their ShopSafe system for single-use credit cards. Citibank seems to still have their virtual credit card system, but it requires Flash. Are any banks currently embracing it? The impression I've gotten is that since most of the costs of fraud are on the bank, rather than the cardholder, there's not much incentive for the cardholder to go through the trouble of using single-use cards.…
I've had BoA fraud detection ping me about a monthly rent check before, so I'm not sure it's really good.
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No, that's an unwarranted extrapolation of what I said.
It doesn't seem like an extrapolation given how you phrased it. If you meant to say that "it is only idiocy if you don't know how to anonymize your Bitcoin usage", that is not at all how your comment comes across.
The gap between knowing enough to trace bitcoin, and knowing enough to make bitcoin untraceable is tiny, which means anyone understanding enough to know that bitcoin is traceable bit not bothering to research how it can be untraceable is an idiot (when they go online and call all users idiots, dsspite not having done a tiny bit of research into something pretty well known int the community).
Not normally my choice of words, but I chose to use the language of the comment to humble him a little.
And I was talking to the commenter directly, not generalizing to all bitcoin users. THAT IS an unwarranted extrapolation.
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It doesn't seem like an extrapolation given how you phrased it. If you meant to say that "it is only idiocy if you don't know how to anonymize your Bitcoin usage", that is not at all how your comment comes across.
The parent comment cast the first stone by calling the bitcoin users idiots because bitcoin is traceable. The gap between knowing enough to trace bitcoin, and knowing enough to make bitcoin untraceable is tiny, which means anyone understanding enough to know that bitcoin is traceable bit not bothering to research how it can be untraceable is an idiot (when they go online and call all users idiots, dsspite not having…
That is worse. Personal attacks on HN are not acceptable.
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The parent comment cast the first stone by calling the bitcoin users idiots because bitcoin is traceable. The gap between knowing enough to trace bitcoin, and knowing enough to make bitcoin untraceable is tiny, which means anyone understanding enough to know that bitcoin is traceable bit not bothering to research how it can be untraceable is an idiot (when they go online and call all users idiots, dsspite not having…
> And I was talking to the commenter directly, not generalizing to all bitcoin users. That is worse. Personal attacks on HN are not acceptable.