From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:08:15 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Cleanup. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/7f5a2d6983937ec214de6e3d3a4e0279fda8644f?ds=inline Cleanup. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2014-01-29-bitcoin.txt b/blog/data/2014-01-29-bitcoin.txt index 5264b0a996..7a95d22975 100644 --- a/blog/data/2014-01-29-bitcoin.txt +++ b/blog/data/2014-01-29-bitcoin.txt @@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ I would not conduct illegal money transfers using a system where the details of every transaction is kept forever. This point is investigated in an peer reviewed article in USENIX ;login: from December 2013, in the article -A +"A Fistful of Bitcoins - Characterizing Payments Among Men with No -Names by Sarah Meiklejohn, Marjori Pomarole,Grant Jordan, Kirill +Names" by Sarah Meiklejohn, Marjori Pomarole,Grant Jordan, Kirill Levchenko, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage. They analyse the transaction log in the Bitcoin system, using it to find addresses belong to individuals and organisations and follow the flow @@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ present) seem to be particularly attractive.

These researches are not the first to analyse the Bitcoin -transaction log. The 2001 paper -An Analysis of Anonymity in -the Bitcoin System by Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan is +transaction log. The 2011 paper +"An Analysis of Anonymity in +the Bitcoin System" by Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan is summarized like this:

@@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ market value of approximately half a million U.S. dollars.

I hope these references can help kill the urban myth that Bitcoin -are anonymous.

+is anonymous. It isn't really a good fit for illegal activites. Use +cash if you need to stay anonymous, at least until regular DNA +sampling of notes and coins become the norm. :)

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