A Bitcoin bust that took down the web’s biggest child abuse site
This article is terrible honestly. Statements like "tracing a cryptocurrency that once seemed untraceable". Excuse me what? Who thought this? Idiots at three letter agencies? Pedophiles and drug dealers?<p>Here's what the Bitcoin whitepaper itself speculated.<p>"As an additional firewall, a new key pair should be used for each transaction to keep them from being linked to a common owner. Some linking is still unavoidable with multi-input transactions, which necessarily reveal that their inputs were owned by the same owner. The risk is that if the owner of a key is revealed, linking could reveal other transactions that belonged to the same owner."<p>And here's an early Bitcointalk thread. Traceability was discussed and acknowledged from the very beginning.<p><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=241" rel="nofollow">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=241</a>