EPISODE · Apr 5, 2018 · 9 MIN
A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers a New Way to Trace Stolen Bitcoins
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
Bitcoin's blockchain provides inalterable evidence, stored on thousands of computers, of every Bitcoin transaction that's ever taken place. Many of the transactions recorded on that distributed ledger are crimes: Billions of dollars in stolen funds, contraband deals, and paid ransoms sitting in plain sight, yet obscured by unidentifiable Bitcoin addresses and, in many cases, tangles of money laundering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Bitcoin's blockchain provides inalterable evidence, stored on thousands of computers, of every Bitcoin transaction that's ever taken place. Many of the transactions recorded on that distributed ledger are crimes: Billions of dollars in stolen funds, contraband deals, and paid ransoms sitting in plain sight, yet obscured by unidentifiable Bitcoin addresses and, in many cases, tangles of money laundering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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