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I'm not particularly anti-crypto but this is probably the worst example ever.

By using crypto the person now has written a public record of that payment. An attacker now can use correlation attacks to try to identify the user.

It's worse in almost every way for that user.



I'm still stuck at the part where we're paying for porn...


You’ll understand when you’re older.


I'm fairly old already, and so far age is... not linearly correlated, but at least definitely a dampening function on porn consumption :)


Haha, ok well you got me there. :) when i get right down to it, I've only paid for my porn out of a sense of patronage, not necessity. Shame about that dampening factor, but its also allowed me to appreciate more niche and interesting erotica, akin to adults who can eat interesting food dishes compared to kids who prefer hamburgers and macaroni.


I assumed it was a dating site?


Worse than a credit card? How?

Public record that Syria cannot easily track with bitcoin or no trail with Monero.

I'll give you a bitcoin wallet address can you tell me who owns it?


> I'll give you a bitcoin wallet address can you tell me who owns it?

It depends on the address. But assuming the person is using the same address for multiple transactions then the attacker only has to be able to correlate one address with a person (or a person's device if they have access to it).

This could be a completely innocuous transaction, including something as seemingly innocent as signing into a Dapp.

Compare that to a non-blockchain transaction, where if the attacker hacked an random ecommerce site (say a supermarket) that doesn't automatically allow them to tie all records to transactions on the site that is a problem.

> Worse than a credit card? How?

If I buy something at my supermarket with my credit card, even with home delivery AND even if the supermarket kept the credit card number there is nothing tying that transaction to gay.com.




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