Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2023-02-04 🗒️ Summary of this message: The author ...

📅 Original date posted:2023-02-04
🗒️ Summary of this message: The author warns that providing information on bitcoin transactions to third-party companies like Chainalysis may result in the data being sold or leaked.
📝 Original message:On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 10:15:30PM +0200, Daniel Lipshitz wrote:
> We have standard commercial information about the payment processors, non
> custodial liquidity providers and merchants which become our clients - we
> do not have any kyc/aml information or telephone number on who is sending
> our clients the bitcoin for deposit. For us these are just bitcoin Trx
> which our clients choose to benefit from 0-conf deposit recognition. Our
> service is provided via API with the only information our clients share
> with us, regarding a specific bitcoin transaction, being public bitcoin
> information like trx hash and output address.

You know who your clients are, and thus every request for information on a
transaction is reasonably likely to be a deposit associated with the client who
requested it. Learning what addresses are associated with what entity is a
significant benefit to Chainalysis operations, and there's every reason to
expect that the data you learn will either be sold or leaked to Chainalysis
companies.

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