From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:08:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Make quotes easier to spot. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/4b9ead015edcda70fceba82aa654882dcde550b8?ds=sidebyside Make quotes easier to spot. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2014-01-29-bitcoin.txt b/blog/data/2014-01-29-bitcoin.txt index 7a95d22975..cb7b2e8cfb 100644 --- a/blog/data/2014-01-29-bitcoin.txt +++ b/blog/data/2014-01-29-bitcoin.txt @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ of money from both Bitcoin theft and trades on Silk Road to where the money end up. This is how they wrap up their article:

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To demonstrate the usefulness of this type of analysis, we turned +

"To demonstrate the usefulness of this type of analysis, we turned our attention to criminal activity. In the Bitcoin economy, criminal activity can appear in a number of forms, such as dealing drugs on Silk Road or simply stealing someone else’s bitcoins. We followed the @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ stolen bitcoins were deposited. Because such exchanges seem to serve as chokepoints into and out of the Bitcoin economy (i.e., there are few alternative ways to cash out), we conclude that using Bitcoin for money laundering or other illicit purposes does not (at least at -present) seem to be particularly attractive.

+present) seem to be particularly attractive."

These researches are not the first to analyse the Bitcoin @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ the Bitcoin System" by Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan is summarized like this:

-Anonymity in Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic currency system, is a +"Anonymity in Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic currency system, is a complicated issue. Within the system, users are identified by public-keys only. An attacker wishing to de-anonymize its users will attempt to construct the one-to-many mapping between users and @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ complementary views of the Bitcoin system and have implications for anonymity. We combine these structures with external information and techniques such as context discovery and flow analysis to investigate an alleged theft of Bitcoins, which, at the time of the theft, had a -market value of approximately half a million U.S. dollars. +market value of approximately half a million U.S. dollars."

I hope these references can help kill the urban myth that Bitcoin