On 2015-03-16 7:55 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Daniel Friesen <dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Bitcoin is not untraceable.
>>
>> An adversary capable enough to eavesdrop on dissidents' communication
>> making them need Tor should be capable of tracing the publicly available
>> bitcoin transaction logs back from the payment to the proxy owner to the
>> originating non-anonymous financial transaction used to purchase the
>> bitcoins.
>>
> I'll admit not knowing much about bitcoin security, but isn't that what
> mixers are for?
Assuming those work, they make bitcoin even less accessible to the
nontechnical users and many of the users of the proxy would likely not
do so, endangering themselves.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]


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