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2026-05-09 13:45 UTC
@stiiin@infosec.space well, if you consider buying illicit drugs and extortion through ransomware an application, there is a very good use case for it.
@julsboo@mamot.fr @swelljoe@mas.to
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@stiiin@infosec.space 2026-05-09 14:25
@neverpanic@chaos.social @julsboo@mamot.fr @swelljoe@mas.to Even for money launderers, there are no upsides. All illegal activities are on a public ledger, barely pseudonymised and non-repudiable. I don't know enough about the inner workings of the network's protocol and architecture to judge the OPSEC of running one's own full node vs. that of depending on one ran by a third party. But even if a transaction can't be traced back to an IP address (and thus to a person) that way, there's always the question of getting real money, goods, or services in and out.