This is a summary of the key points from this article: How to Not Get Caught When You Launder Money on Blockchain? Seems like successfully laundering Bitcoins is fairly complicated, lots of pitfalls. Secrecy is usually binary, it is all or nothing. If there is secrecy for 99 transactions and then a failure on the […]
Ransomware Prohibition
Theres nothing that can’t be made worse The Treasury has moved to prohibit payment of ransomware ransoms. They’ve said there will be some exceptions, and it is obvious that this won’t be an effective complete global ban on payment. The result, a partial ban on payment, is the worst possible ransomware environment for victims. The […]
The DRP, in the Tor Hidden Service, with the Bitcoins
Give it to me straight Dr the Grugq, or tl;dr NOTE: this was written in October 2013, and aside from minor edits, it is posted as-is This is an abridged version of a longer post pulling out the lessons learned from the Silk Road Complaint. This post will only list the OPSEC errors, rather than explore […]