Quote from: darkangel11 on June 27, 2018, 06:39:55 PM

Quote from: stompix on June 27, 2018, 02:55:40 PM

And about the BTC being so non-anonymous...
Just how many of the scammers here on the forum have been traced out of 8200 scam accusations topics? 0.1% ? 0.2%?
Sounds pretty anonymous to me. Cool

There are several reasons for them not being found and convicted. I think one of the biggest ones, pirateat40, got prosecuted. They also managed to get Ross, so those who are treated as "high profile" are found.
As for this forum, I believe that at least half of the accusations don't even mention money. The people involved are accused of hacking accounts, scamming signature campaigns for a couple bucks, taking loans and disappearing... That 10% (at most) that steal big money, still can be considered small fish. Nobody is going to spend days or months trying to trace wallets when there's only a couple thousand USD at stake, but BTC is by all means traceable. You just have to spend the coins somewhere for it to work. If the thief hoards the coins tracing is pointless.

As cellard said just above, I'm not so sure you can track coins that easily. Especially with the service both of us advertise on the forum. Cool

A large number of coins maybe it will leave tracks but 100-200 coins spread over a few days, with chips then tumbled again and deposited on multiple accounts on localbitcoins for example, have fun tracking that...

With fiat and banks it's pretty simple, no matter where you transfer the money there is always an account with a label, you just can't erase money from one account and then have an account 3 weeks older credited with the same amount on the other side of the world.