Troll sent tx's with message "Child Porn" during 2012-2014 (check ur addresses)

[nakatomoshi]

I was looking at my old transactions and I found some strange transactions from the early signature campaign days (specially Primedice and Bitmixer.io era) that were sent to one of my addresses that said "child porn". I am now worried about selling these coins because when you present evidence of the coins being legit (from a sig campaign which is a legit advertisement activity) in the form of screenshots and whatnot, then they will see some transaction that says "child porn" in a message. This is crazy. What I am supposed to do now? How im supposed to take a screenshot of my address and present it to tax authorities when it says "child porn" there?

I recommend that if you were here around 2012-2014 and had public addresses to get paid you look at your records and look for this. We need to do something about this. Even if we did nothing wrong, its not too nice to present your address for taxes while some fucking idiot sent tx's with those inappropriate messages. I think this is a big problem with bitcoin. Authorities don't know how to deal with this and the terms "child porn" may make them go paranoid about you and you end up audited when you are innocent. This is crazy. Please check your payments from 2012-2014 to see if you are also affected and tell me what will you do about it. I wasn't sure if I should post in Legal section too. If you were in a signature campaign in these years definitely check your addresses because I remember other people talking about trolls spamming with messages back then, so now for taxes it becomes a problem... what will you do? If you cash out a big chunk they will ask where your money came from so you will need screenshots of the payments I guess, and once again that message in there on your address doesn't look good. Yes I know you are innocent and you have no control over what is sent into a public address, but still, you get the idea, imagine having to send your transaction history for taxes and they see that crap there.

I have just found a thread were people talk about this:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=799713.0

Yes, I recd. that much from Laxo trade, but I won't sign up on there site for that cheap. I also recd. 0.0001 from an asshole advertising "child porn", here is his address http://blockchain.info/address/1CPxxxZkKeBYDgvX7pmiUZnMRxqELFV7Yb

So 1CPxxxZkKeBYDgvX7pmiUZnMRxqELFV7Yb is one of the addresses. The question is: how I am supposed to send screenshot to tax authorities when I have a transaction that says "child porn"? This is crazy.

[McVillan]

There are 2 problems here ....

The first and major problem is the lack of a free and universal "taint" checking service ( similar to the old blockchain.info/taint ) which seemed to get closed down as soon as the blockchain r@peists ChainAnalysis / Eliptic came in ... at around $1500 a month. There is now one that gives a basic overview similar to the chainanlysis reactor.... more needed. It is (quite) a simple task of interrogating the public blockchain. So more taint checking for free ...

The second problem that has become more apparent ( and highlighted here ) is traders are deliberately marking other traders, old customers that have gone elsewhere etc as bad/naughty/scammers. Far too easy with the whoswhos service ... now if you check the taint on coins coming from an exchange (and they ALL suffer this) there is normally a level of taint ... some exchanges give taint analysis of near 100% ... a BIG red flag.

So ... do we use "throw away" wallets (with the hassle of private key retention and safety) moving coins via these temp wallets to exchanges and then via a more secretive coin (Monero) and back - or via a mixing service (that inherently just moves the data from public to private no matter what they say on retention - the same as exchanges) ? When you check your addresses you will be horified (if you use the common exchanges) at the amount of taint.

I will have a service implemented by end May 2019 for free to all to use via clearnet + onion site with no login or payment required.... next project in line.