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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: JPSquared on July 25, 2011, 09:56 pm
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I've noticed now that exact details of Bitcoin addresses into and out of SR are being kept track of on the account page, as well order history (items, vendor, date). I thought the point of SR was anonymous sales. Now, if the server becomes compromised, they can start to follow the money trail, what user bought what, etc. Even if addresses aren't found the money trail can lead LE to the exchangers, who will roll in a sec on who money put in or out.
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I really dislike this as well... same with not being able to delete "sent" messages.
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Problems IMO:
You cannot delete the transactions from blockexplorer.com either.
Also,
Once you've sent an email you cannot delete it from the other persons email box even if you delete it from your sent items. Even if that was the case, how are you to delete it from the other person memory and the text file they may have pasted it to?
Solution IMO:
Wash your coins and don't leave a paper trail they can follow
Do not send anything you NEED to delete from your sent items and use PGP.
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I think this is a very valid point, about the order records. Hopefully SR will install a feature that allows you to delete them after the 20 days 6 hours has passed, unless that order is in resolution. Nobody wants all those records in a database someplace; regardless of how secure it may be.
As for tracking the money, find that thread with Anarcho57 talking about converting BTC to cash. He explains it very well there.
But basically, ExMachina is right. Wash/tumble those suckers then send them off to LR or whoever right after that. They won't be trackable at all.
Remember: they can only identify the wallet's number, not the owner. If you're really paranoid just wash all your coins every X days or months, then ship all off to LR for cash. Delete the BTC program and reload it. Now you have a new wallet. Wheeeee! Your old wallet might as well be down a sewer grate in NYC for all the good it will do anybody trying to track you.
@shepj-yeah, I hated that too. But you haven't checked your "sent" file lately, have you? They now allow you to delete the old ones. I did! :)
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Or you can do what I do...never take delivery of bitcoins. I just leave them in the Silk Road system. In fact, I'm not even running a Bitcoin client. All of the commerce that I have done, has been completely contained within Silk Road.
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