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Sanctioned Services and the service traceability to this forum, Any danger?
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Fivestar4everMVP
on 01/12/2023, 11:57:28 UTC
⭐ Merited by Cantsay (5) ,salad daging (3) ,ETFbitcoin (2) ,livecoins (1) ,JayJuanGee (1) ,Xxmodded (1) ,DdmrDdmr (1)
I don't know if this has been discussed before, I hope its not exactly in the same perspective as this one, I will sure lock the thread if a previous thread/discussion is exactly same lines as this one.

I believe we all are aware that OFAC-(office of foreign asset control) have recently sanctioned Sinbad - a bitcoin mixing service that was being promoted/advertised on this forum by users through their signature ad spaces.
https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=44437

Now, the escrow bitcoin address which held the fund used to pay Sinbad signature ad campaign participants has also been blacklisted by Binance, and they are also investigating the transactions carried out through this same address.



Now again, I did a little research on how possible it is for authorities to trace Sinbad services to this forum, I started by first searching the keyword..
"Sinbad" - and there was no mention of this forum all through, no result even showing sinbad as a mixer.

I decide to search the keyword..
"Sinbad bitcoin mixer" - and there was no mention of this forum in the search result until the 15th result which mentioned this thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5445243.0
And the 21st result which mentioned this thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5450517.0

I proceeded to doing the search with the escrow bitcoin address which was provided by @Royse777 in the Sinbad signature Ann thread, and the Sinbad signature Ann thread came up second in the Google search result, after blockexplorer.one.

Now, my concern is, wouldnt it make sense to remove the Sinbad escrow address from this forum? And also remove anything that could make it easy for authorities to trace transactions from that address to this forum, and it's users?

Is this forum not going to be in danger if authorities trace transactions with services they have sanctioned down to this forum?

Maybe this is nothing, either way, consider me being over curious and conscious  Grin.