Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 08:50:02 AM

Quote from: RickDeckard on November 20, 2021, 08:57:35 PM

Yeah I suppose it had something to due with that, the fact that it amazes me is that either someone manually tagged the account or then the "system" behind it is crawnling the web search for the (first?) mention of that address somewhere in the Internet. Spooky stuff.

Slightly off topic, but if this is happening with a free block explorer which anyone can use, imagine how much more is happening with companies like Coinbase Analytics which are bringing in tens of millions of dollars in contracts from the government to spy on addresses?

I had almost forgotten of that side of Coinbase o_e_l_e_o, thank you for reminding me of it! I think it goes along the idea that governments will do anything to trace whatever kind of "money" (as a concept) that they can. Even Coinbase itself has its eyes[1] on both IRS and DEA as potential clients for their analytical software even though they've just signed[2] a contract with Homeland Security[2] this may just be the beginning of it all[2][3]. Despite being "masked" as Homeland Security we are able to see[4] that the agencies behind it, at least for now, are both U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Secret Service (USSS) so who knows what they are really looking/going after...

[1]https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/71261/coinbase-is-selling-blockchain-analytics-software-to-the-us-secret-service
[2]https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/09/20/coinbase-signs-deal-with-homeland-security-to-provide-analytics-software/
[3]https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70US0920C70090044_7009_-NONE-_-NONE-