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April 03, 2018, 10:38:13 PM |
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Interesting research coming out of Uni of Cambridge. Can bitcoins be tracked? ... used to have issues with tainting the bitcoins but current technology has lead to practical ways to trace stolen bitcoins. im not sure what this means for you and me, like what happens if somehow stolen bitcoins land in my hands... but interesting nonetheless. Video: Stolen Bitcoin Tracing - Computerphile; practical way to trace stolen bitcoins it is not a new thing. that is the unique of blockchain itself. Blackchain is decentralized and transparent system. everyone can trace bitcoin flows through wallet to wallet addresses. another unique of blockchain is anonymity. even you can trace where bitcoin flows, you can not know who stole it.
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kier010
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April 03, 2018, 10:52:28 PM |
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it can be traced if you have the receiver address but you can't recover it. so we must be careful who we talk/trade to avoid being scammed.
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tabas
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April 03, 2018, 10:57:27 PM |
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It can be traced but how you are going to sue the robber? Many cases that has been reported here in forum before about stolen bitcoins and as well as those exchanges fund, they tracked the wallet but they don't know who's the owner so still no action has been found but a good development.
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April 03, 2018, 11:08:39 PM |
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Traced bitcoin ? Lot of scammer right now really can make the right one being accused by the bad people.
It can be a trouble if someone just pretend being scammed by other people and want those btc back to his wallet.
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April 03, 2018, 11:09:37 PM |
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Depends what you mean by stolen but its not that simple to just to retrieve misplaced bitcoin. You would need the cooperation of the party that is sending.
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April 03, 2018, 11:20:16 PM |
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That's a big problem in the name of blockchain, in my opinion. How can anyone trace it if you can only see the receiving address on the other end without a full information of the receiver?
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metenjean
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April 04, 2018, 08:47:40 AM |
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Tracing bitcoin is easy, the most important and difficult part is to retrieve it. We can know the address but if we don't know who owns it then how can we prosecute the person? And since scams and hacking with annonymity has become a trend lately, the government started to regulate the cryptocurrencies to make sure there will be less stolen money. Improvement of bitcoin and blockchain is great but "with great power comes great responsibility."
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April 04, 2018, 09:45:48 AM |
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Bitcoin is safe. Ordinary people can easily reliably protect their bitcoins.But not everyone knows how to do it right. Therefore make mistakes and become victims of swindlers.The only way to steal your bitcoin is that the thief fraudulently forces you to grant access to your wallet.To avoid attacks, you need to protect your email account with two-factor authentication.The secret key is securely stored on the USB nakopitel or on paper.Do not trust companies with a dubious reputation and trust beautiful promising advertisements.In General, the security of our funds is entirely up to us.
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May 07, 2022, 02:51:32 PM |
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Well, the private sector has climbed in with very good Chain Analysis technology and they are supplying good data to law enforcement agencies to catch the criminals that are using Bitcoin for their crimes. I just hope this technology will not be misused to implement surveillance on law abiding citizens. We saw what happened after "911" ...when the US government went totally bat shit crazy with surveillance and they gathered information on everyone. Use the technology to catch criminals and leave the rest of the people to live their lives.
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May 07, 2022, 03:33:12 PM |
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not only a stolen bitcoin should be able to be traced, i think all transactions are traceable since they are open on the distributee ledger of blockchain but they are immutable, meaning it cannot be altered, although tracing a transaction can be quite technical and demanding a little bit but its a thing of little task by those who were technically oriented, the identity of the user can as well be revealed if using a centralized exchange after various investigations might have been carried out by the government or private regulatory bodies.
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May 07, 2022, 03:56:05 PM |
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Interesting research coming out of Uni of Cambridge. Can bitcoins be tracked? ... used to have issues with tainting the bitcoins but current technology has lead to practical ways to trace stolen bitcoins. im not sure what this means for you and me, like what happens if somehow stolen bitcoins land in my hands... but interesting nonetheless. Video: Stolen Bitcoin Tracing - Computerphile; practical way to trace stolen bitcoins when you lose you coin, dont waste your time unless you know what to do, reach out to a recovery agent or hire someone to help you get it back. there are people out the. check out DIGITRECOVERY.NET and contact them. this is the only agency i have used, cant speak for the others. they charge after the job is done Why bumping an old thread and promoting a site which is not so popular? If we see the topic’s title , then it’s somehow possible to track who stole the Bitcoin, it certain factors are also to be present for the that. If the thief stole’s the Bitcoins and send it to his Binance account, then upon requesting Binance you can get the details (ofc you need to prove necessary details). Moreover this are for certain cases, but guess what 90% of the times Stolen Bitcoins are untraceable. Moreover there are many thieves present who use mixer to mix the addresses and thereby remain anonymous.
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May 07, 2022, 04:04:14 PM |
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With regards to bitcoin transactions being corellated - yes that's definitely possible because most of the normal wallets create an additional output for the remainder of the money which is then sent to a "change address". This change address could subsequently be used as an input to a future transaction, so the transaction works both horizontally and vertically - multiple transactions from the same wallet can be tracked, and transaction chains (the spender of the spender of the ... of BTC) can also be constructed.
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May 08, 2022, 02:11:19 AM |
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Yo idiots necro'ing and replying to a thread from 2018... 1. You have been ignored. 2. The dude who necroed this post is likely Kakamakr, you are good at making kaka that's true lol... 3. Chainalysis - You ever heard of them? The USA Gov't contracts with them to track ALL BTC transactions. 4. No crypto is truly untraceable in this day and age, even in the future. 5. Stop necroing shit and acting like a fool.. Esp. you, Kakahead, check your trust you fuckin idiot.
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May 08, 2022, 03:28:28 AM |
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Well, it's a bit difficult since it's totally anonymous. But despite that, it can be traced because if these are stolen, it could be allowed to access the address of the wallet in which it is kept after being located and although the Blockchain technology is very transparent regarding its transactions, many times it is not it is. it is traceable since if it is stolen they can launder money and they do it by depositing the crypto assets in a single wallet and then depositing it in several wallets both with the stolen money and with the clean money, so it is almost impossible to trace it as well as knowing which one it is legal and which one is not.
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May 08, 2022, 07:50:10 AM |
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Well, it's a bit difficult since it's totally anonymous. But despite that, it can be traced because if these are stolen, it could be allowed to access the address of the wallet in which it is kept after being located and although the Blockchain technology is very transparent regarding its transactions, many times it is not it is. it is traceable since if it is stolen they can launder money and they do it by depositing the crypto assets in a single wallet and then depositing it in several wallets both with the stolen money and with the clean money, so it is almost impossible to trace it as well as knowing which one it is legal and which one is not.
even though they have stolen their stolen goods, the history can still be traced, and in the end it will be withdrawn to the local bank, that's where we will find out who the person who stole it is. Of course, for the police, this can actually be traced, but because there is no legal regulation regarding cryptocurrency, it is difficult to follow up, because the police must act in accordance with the applicable legal basis.
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May 08, 2022, 10:41:34 AM |
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Interesting research coming out of Uni of Cambridge. Can bitcoins be tracked? ... used to have issues with tainting the bitcoins but current technology has lead to practical ways to trace stolen bitcoins. im not sure what this means for you and me, like what happens if somehow stolen bitcoins land in my hands... but interesting nonetheless. Video: Stolen Bitcoin Tracing - Computerphile; practical way to trace stolen bitcoins This is one thing that maybe a few crypto cheerleaders do not always understand when they claim that the anonymity is such a big bonus. There are always inputs and outputs to the system, transparency is at the very core of how Bitcoin works which is a good thing for all honest users. However if you have bad intentions it is easily possible to trace stolen bitcoins and things like mixers are not always an effective choice - you'll often be receiving back money with illicit connections. When you go to cash out, either buying products at a shop or into an exchange, you'll be identified at that location which can make 10 wallet hops to hide it totally ineffective. There are plenty of cases where people have been caught even after all sorts of money laundering attempts.
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