Topic: Academic legal paper re: Bitcoin & Anonymity (Read 158 times)
As always, I'll recommend this wiki article as an introduction to privacy and anonymity when it comes to using Bitcoin, perhaps it'll help you with your work: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Privacy
In the early years of Bitcoin, anonymity or that capacity to send Bitcoin to anyone anytime and of course anytime without the need to identify the sender and the receiver was touted as one of the many advantages of dealing with this cryptocurrency. But then we realized this can be a wrong notion as all the transactions are recorded in the ledger or the blockchain and right now there are already tracking technologies that are looking for footprints to identify the possible sender and the receiver. Hence, we already have cases in courts of successful prosecution of illegal transactions using Bitcoin.
I just read this very good and very plain explanation about Bitcoin's anonymity and that it is in fact should be called as pseudonymous where it is said that sending/receiving Bitcoin is akin to writing under a pseudonym.
Anyway, I am wishing you the best in your endeavor of writing an academic legal paper on Bitcoin & Anonymity.
I watched this recently, it might be helpful for an initial insight: https://youtu.be/aRds5RvexYg
It's a pretty good summary. If you have used bitcoin, you'll know of the drawbacks with anonymity already and there are many companies running chain analysis on every transaction.
It's a pretty good summary. If you have used bitcoin, you'll know of the drawbacks with anonymity already and there are many companies running chain analysis on every transaction.
I am going to be writing an academic legal paper, also known as a law journal article here in the states, on the international legal implications of Bitcoin. I am doing this for my Int'l Telecommunications Law class (don't flame me on this, i know the topic could fall into numerous other categories, but doing it for this class is a marriage of convenience, and the prof is probably the most helpful of my available options), and plan on submitting it to several Tech. and Economic Law journals.
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