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1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jun-2022 19:18:58 EDT GeniusMusing
   Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE
   https://theintercept.com/2022/06/29/crypto-coinbase-tracer-ice/
   
   >ICE is now able to track transactions made through nearly a dozen different digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether.
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   >Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users, according to contract documents shared with The Intercept.
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   >News of the deal, potentially worth as much as $1.37 million, was first reported last September, but details of exactly what capabilities would be offered to ICE’s controversial Homeland Security Investigations division of were unclear. But a new contract document obtained by Jack Poulson, director of the watchdog group Tech Inquiry, and shared with The Intercept, shows ICE now has access to a variety of forensic features provided through Coinbase Tracer, the company’s intelligence-gathering tool (formerly known as Coinbase Analytics).
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   I thought you could be anon in the crypto world...
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jun-2022 23:18:43 EDT lnxw48a1

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      Most of those have public blockchains, so with some correlating work, a sufficiently resourced adversary could de-anonymize many users already.
      
      I think the #Monero #cryptocurrency ( #XMR ) has a mandatory mixer that blends several transactions together in order to make it harder to map transactions to specific parties.
      
      But Monero used to be the currency that people would try to mine in other people's browsers and servers, so I still feel like it is tainted by criminals.