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100 sats \ 6 replies \ @jasonb OP 9 Oct \ parent \ on: The Incident bitcoin
Oh yeah, I’ve given up on the sats. Mostly posting here for the community’s sake. That said, I did share my actual transactions with law enforcement and still didn’t hear anything. It wasn’t a lot of money I suppose in bitcoin fraud terms, but it was significant for me and my goals in life right now.
Just curious, is there any particular reason you suggest I shouldn’t share the specific transactions here? I already intuitively thought that wouldn’t be smart, but couldn’t pinpoint why. The transactions to these guys came from my strike wallet, so it wouldn’t dox my actual bitcoin holdings. I thought it odd at the time that they didn’t take lightning, not now knowing it was a scam, I’m guessing that was because it would be easier for me to out their node to the community than to out their addresses to law enforcement.
Just curious, is there any particular reason you suggest I shouldn’t share the specific transactions here? [..] The transactions to these guys came from my strike wallet, so it wouldn’t dox my actual bitcoin holdings.
All it takes is a strike hack and you're doxxed, and if you ever sent coin to or from your strike wallet then your stash will be doxxed too. The first rule about pseudonymous transactions is we do not talk about which ones are ours.
I thought it odd at the time that they didn’t take lightning
With lightning you also don't have recourse, so then it's still gone?
Never send someone sats unless you either know them, or you have an escrow.
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All it takes is a strike hack and you’re doxxed
Sure, but I’d be doxxed anyway at that point, right? I definitely do try to keep my real bitcoin addresses from work or mining separate from interacting with kyced bitcoin I got at strike or cashapp or other places like that.
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That depends. If there is just some txs there, no problem. If the txids return search results... then you're already a lot more interesting. If then because you're already more interesting, you get into second stage of sleuthing against you and there turns out to be a link between these coins, your address and your stash, and you're like a multi-whole-coiner... good luck.
This is why, if you've written off the lost sats, you don’t share any txs, with anyone.
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Wow! Yeah, I guess I kind of started down this rabbit hole when I thought I was going to have this cool collaborative discussion with LE, but I’m seeing now how you could REALLY use these techniques as a criminal (like the violent kind, not the political dissident kind). Oddly enough, isn’t this probably the strongest argument in favor of coinjoin from an anyone-who-is-anti-criminals-and-violence standpoint?!