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"When things are recorded in the blockchain, you can go back in history and reveal this information, to break the anonymity of users."
Which law(s) specifically?
I invest in crypto just to get wealthy. Great buying opportunity at the moment. Crypto will do well in 2018!
If someone bought mushrooms from silk road with bitcoin, is there even any law that was broken that they can be charged with a crime?
Which law(s) specifically?
Researchers at Qatar University and the country's Hamad Bin Khalifa University earlier this week published findings that show just how easy it may be to dredge up evidence of years-old bitcoin transactions when spenders didn't carefully launder their payments. In well over 100 cases, they could connect someone's bitcoin payment on a dark web site to that person's public account. In more than 20 instances, they say, they could easily link those public accounts to transactions specifically on the Silk Road, finding even some purchasers' specific names and locations.
"The retroactive operational security of bitcoin is low," says Qatar University researcher Husam Al Jawaheri. "When things are recorded in the blockchain, you can go back in history and reveal this information, to break the anonymity of users."
https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-drug-deals-silk-road-blockchain/