Security News > 2018 > January > Old Bitcoin transactions can come back to haunt you
2018-01-26 20:08
A group of researchers from Qatar University and Hamad Bin Khalifa University have demonstrated how years-old Bitcoin transactions can be used to retroactively deanonymize users of Tor hidden services. It seems that Bitcoin users’ past transactions – and especially if they used the cryptocurrency for illegal deals on the dark web and didn’t think to launder their payments – may come back to haunt them. Researchers’ findings “We crawled 1.5K hidden service pages and created … More →
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