Comment on How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
maness300@lemmy.world 5 months agoYeah, but retrieving actual useful currency from that wallet becomes nearly impossible.
Then how do people set up drug empires built around it?
Use your brains.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The same way they do everywhere else… Complex webs of money laundering, but that’s not cheap, or easy.
maness300@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Or nearly impossible, as evidenced by the litany of small-time vendors who have been operating for years.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
You said drug empires, not guy selling 8 balls and 10 packs on a darknet market.
I’m not going to provide sourcing for my throw away comment, take it, or leave it, doesn’t really matter to me.
maness300@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, because those are the ones LE focuses on. So we can agree that players both big and small are not easily traceable.
Lol, okay. You can just admit you don’t have one.