The IRS Followed Bitcoin Transactions, Resulting In Takedown Of The Largest Child Exploitation Site On The Web
This post is not to dig up the old can of worms about illicit activities that may occur on SAFE but how much effort the IRS is going through to track bitcoin.
As a father of 3 the sites take down is great news.
“You used to hide by laundering your money through shell companies around the country, but we traced you. You took your money offshore and hid around the world, but we found you. You went on the dark web thinking that your actions were anonymous, but they weren’t, and we again found you. You now deal in crypto-currency, again thinking this will make you anonymous, but our agents have once again proved that there is nowhere you can hide.” He added, “We will not stop in our pursuit.”
Probably found at least one transaction related to the activity and then traced through that. This is/was one of the big criticisms of bitcoin and is why bitcoin is not anonymous.
They only need to nab one offender and that gives them the hook into the transaction chain.
André is asking whether React Native was a bad choice (for manyverse, a Scuttlebutt social app) the thread has useful comments and suggested alternatives. Feel free to jump in on Twitter:
Sounds like snake oil to be honest. Or at least deluded. Gotta check the site to see how they steal the money to decide.
EDIT: Somebody’s tripping on some powerful shit:
Urbit and Bitcoin converge along the realization that the Virtual is subsuming the Real. In other words, the locus of control over your life is no longer embodied in the physical, but the digital.
But the whole site is just similarly bogus word salad. On the other hand, they have a github repo with 15k+ commits so idfk…
I wouldn’t put it so strongly, but I must admit that the more I read, the less convinced I was that Urbit will work.
That’s precisely the opposite experience I had back in 2014 when I started to look into SAFE, or Maidsafe as we called it then. Every question I had was answered by reading deeper, but more than that, they more I read about SAFE, the more impressive it became.
Urbit is in early beta. It works. It doesn’t work well enough to
be particularly useful, though it’s not that far away.
It’s important to understand that the present Hoon codebase
was developed almost entirely by three full-time engineers
(Curtis. Philio. Anton). We are good. but not superhuman.
He occasionally hinted at ties between his ideology and professional pursuit. In a 2010 post called “Urbit: functional programming from scratch,” under his Moldbug alias, he winkingly points to a different blog, called Moron Lab, which documented the building of Urbit.
Seems to have left Urbit-shell Tion earlier this year:
What will I do personally? I’ll spend more time with my kids. I’ll finish reading my 1911 Britannica – I am only on the B’s. I have no other long-term plans.
It’s word-count: ~4750. Must have meant something to him.
Remember the scene in Matrix (Revolutions) where the drones swarm arond Neo to form a talking face, well guess which evil company has made this reality…
Meanwhile Google Nest have suggested that homeowners with their fire detectors should warn guests that their conversations are being eavesdropped upon. FFS.
The trading platform will not serve U.S. customers after this year.
Fortunately, I don’t live in the US, and I haven’t really been following the hunt on crypto on the other side of the pond very closely. As an EU citizen I have no problems with e.g. Bittrex and Poloniex. The US is just one country, but it is a pretty big one. Are US citizens worried? How are you handling this regional banning?
