Blockchain forensics enables unprecedented surveillance into people’s financial lives, with profound implications for privacy rights. Sophisticated chain analysis tools can de-anonymize users and map entire transaction histories, often without accountability, transparency, or contestability. This level of invasive tracking should deeply concern those who care about privacy. However, it is unclear how accurate many of these tools are.
Blackbox Tools
A recent case against Roman Sterlingov is challenging if Chainalysis’ black box software is actually as effective as promised. As noted by Wired: “In the spring of 2021, Roman Sterlingov, a 33-year-old Swedish-Russian national, was arrested by Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators at the Los Angeles airport and was accused of creating and operating Bitcoin Fog, a bitcoin “mixing” service on the dark web that took in coins from its users and returned others with the intention of preventing forensic accountants from following that money’s trail...
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