Long read but fascinating WIRED story on crypto and taking down child porn….

[sirhrmechanic]

https://www.wired.com/story/tracers-in-the-dark-welcome-to-video-crypto-anonymity-myth/

Took down some major shitbags…. Who I hope die in prison.

Interesting the investigative players involved! And the scope and scale of cyber investigations. And for those thinking Bitcoin is somehow anonymous… nothing online is anonymous.
A good read!

Sirhr

 

[r50140]

Good read, thanks for sharing!

 

[eca7891]

From the push to make this the mainstream norm they will probably be out in 6 months.

 

[sgtsmmiii]

Wow - great read. Thanks for the link.

 

[TurboTrout]

Child porn

This translates to the gov was scared of losing power and money due to crypto, so they spent large about of resources to attack it, but that sounds bad, so they found a few kiddie diddlers everyone hates and tried to pair it with crypto for better marketing

Fuck child molesters, but even more so fuck anyone who tries to use “the children” to take my rights and privacy

 

[Bender]

https://www.wired.com/story/tracers-in-the-dark-welcome-to-video-crypto-anonymity-myth/

Took down some major shitbags…. Who I hope die in prison.

Interesting the investigative players involved! And the scope and scale of cyber investigations. And for those thinking Bitcoin is somehow anonymous… nothing online is anonymous.
A good read!

Sirhr

Some say it was a glow op from the beginning. Satoshi = glow team.

Change my mind

 

[E. Bryant]

But the counterintuitive truth about Bitcoin, the one upon which Chainalysis had built its business, was this: Every Bitcoin payment is captured in its blockchain, a permanent, unchangeable, and entirely public record of every transaction in the Bitcoin network. The blockchain ensures that coins can’t be forged or spent more than once. But it does so by making everyone in the Bitcoin economy a witness to every transaction. Every criminal payment is, in some sense, a smoking gun in broad daylight.

The fact that bitcoiners can't figure out this one simple fact makes me distrust every other claim they make about crypto.

Good story. I especially liked the part where the one pedo splattered himself across the pavement.

 

[Bender]

Child porn

This translates to the gov was scared of losing power and money due to crypto, so they spent large about of resources to attack it, but that sounds bad, so they found a few kiddie diddlers everyone hates and tried to pair it with crypto for better marketing

Fuck child molesters, but even more so fuck anyone who tries to use “the children” to take my rights and privacy

Unfortunately this. Government hates competition

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Some say it was a glow op from the beginning. Satoshi = glow team.

Change my mind

In this case... I don't much care.

Glowies who target opposing political views, or constitutionally-protected ownership of firearms or any other legal activity that hurts someone's feelings... Well I'm agin-it! Also against the 'stings' that push people to do things they never would have done without being talked into it by... said glowies. AKA dumbasses who decide to go all militia when joining a dumb-ass glowie militia.

But one of the places that baiting and similar has done a lot of good is stopping pedos. Dating back to the 1990's. When the saying was "There are no teenage girls on the Internet... only grown men pretending to be teenage girls... and LE pretending to be teenage girls."

Ok, so I have double standards. If one is going to have double standards... this is not a bad line to draw.

Change my mind! ;-)

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[Bender]

In this case... I don't much care.

Glowies who target opposing political views, or constitutionally-protected ownership of firearms or any other legal activity that hurts someone's feelings... Well I'm agin-it! Also against the 'stings' that push people to do things they never would have done without being talked into it by... said glowies. AKA dumbasses who decide to go all militia when joining a dumb-ass glowie militia.

But one of the places that baiting and similar has done a lot of good is stopping pedos. Dating back to the 1990's. When the saying was "There are no teenage girls on the Internet... only grown men pretending to be teenage girls... and LE pretending to be teenage girls."

Ok, so I have double standards. If one is going to have double standards... this is not a bad line to draw.

Change my mind! ;-)

Cheers,

Sirhr

The issue is the elephant in the room. I can’t quite compute the virtue signal of nabbing pedos (which I love) but the complete lack of this A-team on stopping any of the pedo elite in Epstein, Clinton, Podesta, Weiner, and on and on. It’s like a red herring, they can say LOOK! Alphabeti stopped pedos!!! When the (((Master Minds))) never see justice.

Tell me why not a single person has been leaked off the Epstein/Maxwell client list?

That question is rhetorical. We all know why.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

The issue is the elephant in the room. I can’t quite compute the virtue signal of nabbing pedos (which I love) but the complete lack of this A-team on stopping any of the pedo elite in Epstein, Clinton, Podesta, Weiner, and on and on. It’s like a red herring, they can say LOOK! Alphabeti stopped pedos!!! When the (((Master Minds))) never see justice.

Tell me why not a single person has been leaked off the Epstein/Maxwell client list?

That question is rhetorical. We all know why.

Totally agree...

And the other elephant in the room is to look at the resources that were put together to go after the video ring.

Why aren't those resources being put into, say, Hunter Biden's Laptop? Or Weiner and Epstein... And on and on.

Great, they got a high-school principal from bumfuck Midwest. But not a single arrest or prosecution of the 'elite' who keep making the news. Well, Weinstein. But most of his targets were whiny actresses over 18... who traded their self-esteem for big careers and bank accounts... then had regrets later when they were washed-up Hollywood hags.

Totally with you, Bender. Where are these amazing capabilities going when it comes to the real crooks... the Congressionals who are becoming billionaires insider trading? The 'fake' fact checkers suppressing political ideas. The 2000 mules. They can supposedly track every cell phone in the capitol on Jan. 6th... and go after credit card records if you happened to buy gas or a Slurpee and were from 'out of state' on the 6th. But they can't track a stolen election... They can tell you who wasn't wearing a mask and will SWAT your gym to shut you down for a made-up pandemic... but noone is looking at records of Pharma to see what they 'really' injected into some 40 percent of the population. I can go on.

This is part of what makes this article so relevant. Yup, they got some creeps. And that is awesome.

But this is also what is arrayed against people who the government doesn't like. Which is terrifying. Because the 'Government' is made up largely of un-elected bureaucrats. And I'm not wrong when I say Sen. Joseph McCarthy was right. They are now made up of utter apparatchik for the New Communism that is embedded like a tick in Washington.

Sirhr

 

[Bender]

Totally agree...

And the other elephant in the room is to look at the resources that were put together to go after the video ring.

Why aren't those resources being put into, say, Hunter Biden's Laptop? Or Weiner and Epstein... And on and on.

Great, they got a high-school principal from bumfuck Midwest. But not a single arrest or prosecution of the 'elite' who keep making the news. Well, Weinstein. But most of his targets were whiny actresses over 18... who traded their self-esteem for big careers and bank accounts... then had regrets later when they were washed-up Hollywood hags.

Totally with you, Bender. Where are these amazing capabilities going when it comes to the real crooks... the Congressionals who are becoming billionaires insider trading? The 'fake' fact checkers suppressing political ideas. The 2000 mules. They can supposedly track every cell phone in the capitol on Jan. 6th... and go after credit card records if you happened to buy gas or a Slurpee and were from 'out of state' on the 6th. But they can't track a stolen election... They can tell you who wasn't wearing a mask and will SWAT your gym to shut you down for a made-up pandemic... but noone is looking at records of Pharma to see what they 'really' injected into some 40 percent of the population. I can go on.

This is part of what makes this article so relevant. Yup, they got some creeps. And that is awesome.

But this is also what is arrayed against people who the government doesn't like. Which is terrifying. Because the 'Government' is made up largely of un-elected bureaucrats. And I'm not wrong when I say Sen. Joseph McCarthy was right. They are now made up of utter apparatchik for the New Communism that is embedded like a tick in Washington.

Sirhr

Yes. McCarthy was always right. I’m just sick of the largest crime syndicates in the history of the world using smoke and mirrors to hide the actual crimes. It disgusts me that they breath free air while the Jan 6th protestors rot in jail like we are China or USSR.

 

[Jumper]

Some say it was a glow op from the beginning. Satoshi = glow team.

Change my mind

The govt isn't smart enough. They're also too stupid and arrogant to keep a secret. If they had created it they'd have bragged to somebody by now.

I was a CI agent in my army days (82nd). I saw enough to swear that I would never voluntarily put myself in a situation where my life or freedom depended on the govt keeping a secret.

 

[Bender]

The govt isn't smart enough. They're also too stupid and arrogant to keep a secret. If they had created it they'd have bragged to somebody by now.

I was a CI agent in my army days (82nd). I saw enough to swear that I would never voluntarily put myself in a situation where my life or freedom depended on the govt keeping a secret.

Oh, they have buried stuff you can’t imagine. I am quite impressed by the secrets they keep.