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Topic: 2012-09-06 AmericanBanker.com Romney Shakedown Attempt Shows Bitcoin's Launde... (Read 1715 times)

legendary
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someone is stealing their lunch?

They're fatasses anyway. They could use the Satoshi Diet.
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Eadem mutata resurgo
SD is not a mixing service ... if it is, it is a pretty terrible one. They send you back coins to the same address they were spent from. When you spend a coin you have to broadcast across the network that you know the public key that produces the public hash (the bitcoin public address) ... so are probably the owner of those coins ... pretty stupid way to make your coins untraceable.

American Banker seems a little hysterical and at sea with the Bitcoin ... someone is stealing their lunch?
legendary
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IDK whether SD actually mixes... if they don't, they ought to start doing so & maybe get more customers.

It can change the makeup of a wallet where there is much less taint in the coins held.  It does leave a direct trace to every wager, and thus for the purpose of mixing fails miserably.

This topic is discussed here:
 - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/blockchain-based-betting-services-function-as-mixing-services-79079
legendary
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By the by, are BFL paying you for your sig? I think it made my eyes bleed a little on the way down the page  Cheesy

And yet you looked at it and read it... I would say it's doing it's job. Wink


Until you get ignored  Shocked

You mean AFTER they read it? Roll Eyes
legendary
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By the by, are BFL paying you for your sig? I think it made my eyes bleed a little on the way down the page  Cheesy

And yet you looked at it and read it... I would say it's doing it's job. Wink


Until you get ignored  Shocked
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No when SD first started I heard the theory that it was so popular because it is used as a mixing service right here on this forum.  This author is clearly doing the research.  

After all, if you are using a mixing svc you obviously have something to hide, but if you are using SD you are just gambling... but actually IDK whether SD actually mixes... if they don't, they ought to start doing so & maybe get more customers.


Mixing would ruin the point of satoshi dice payouts etc being provable  Tongue
They don't mix at all, when a bet wins it's paid to the sending address.
legendary
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No when SD first started I heard the theory that it was so popular because it is used as a mixing service right here on this forum.  This author is clearly doing the research.  

After all, if you are using a mixing svc you obviously have something to hide, but if you are using SD you are just gambling... but actually IDK whether SD actually mixes... if they don't, they ought to start doing so & maybe get more customers.

legendary
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By the by, are BFL paying you for your sig? I think it made my eyes bleed a little on the way down the page  Cheesy

And yet you looked at it and read it... I would say it's doing it's job. Wink
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Marketing manager - GO MP
LMAO @ mistaking satoshi dice for a mixer

"Americanbanker" clearly isn't ready for this  Grin
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One mixing service markets itself as a "the world's most popular Bitcoin betting game."

uh?
AHAHAHAHA SATOSHI DICE
AHAHAHAHHAA I can see why they think it's a "mixing service"
LOL@the SatoshiDice block spam
lol they sure do mix the coins up.. lmfao
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One mixing service markets itself as a "the world's most popular Bitcoin betting game."

uh?
AHAHAHAHA SATOSHI DICE
AHAHAHAHHAA I can see why they think it's a "mixing service"
LOL@the SatoshiDice block spam

walks like a duck, quacks like a duck

but it's a dog...
+1

By the by, are BFL paying you for your sig? I think it made my eyes bleed a little on the way down the page  Cheesy
legendary
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One mixing service markets itself as a "the world's most popular Bitcoin betting game."

uh?
AHAHAHAHA SATOSHI DICE
AHAHAHAHHAA I can see why they think it's a "mixing service"
LOL@the SatoshiDice block spam

walks like a duck, quacks like a duck

but it's a dog...
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One mixing service markets itself as a "the world's most popular Bitcoin betting game."

uh?
AHAHAHAHA SATOSHI DICE
AHAHAHAHHAA I can see why they think it's a "mixing service"
LOL@the SatoshiDice block spam

walks like a duck, quacks like a duck
legendary
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Okey Dokey Lokey
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One mixing service markets itself as a "the world's most popular Bitcoin betting game."

uh?
AHAHAHAHA SATOSHI DICE
AHAHAHAHHAA I can see why they think it's a "mixing service"
LOL@the SatoshiDice block spam
legendary
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One mixing service markets itself as a "the world's most popular Bitcoin betting game."

uh?
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Romney Shakedown Attempt Shows Bitcoin's Laundering Potential

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It may be an elaborate hoax, but an apparent attempt to blackmail Mitt Romney shows the dark side of a disruptive financial technology and raises serious legal questions.


http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/romney-shakedown-attempt-shows-laundering-potential-of-bitcoin-1052402-1.html
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