[Cryptography] Bitcoins and lobbyists

[Bill Stewart]

On 2/27/2018 5:17 PM, John Levine wrote:
 > What am I missing here?

Yup. There was also the payment from 2142137492137974290120978741423427 
to 19080985243542309890809fgrwaefv098 which you can "easily" identify as
a payment for 1000BTC of "Services Rendered, not for use in elections"
from "Totally Based In Delaware, Inc" to "Giant Bags Of Cash, LLC"
and the 350 million payments of $99 from random personal accounts
to the "2021 Inaugural Ball Committee".

Corporations were already a convenient way to make money hard to trace,
even before Citizens United, and tumblers make cryptocoins hard if not 
always impossible to trace, as long as you don't mind the risk that your
coin exchange is suddenly "robbed by h4XX0rz" (unless that's also a
useful way to launder your coins, because the Inaugural Ball Committee
didn't know that random $99 ticket was bought with coins that had
been stolen and tumbled before "Joe MAGA32767" bought it for cash.)

If you want a fully traceable ledger that you're going to require
all political contributions to go through, that's a job for a fully
traceable centralized ledger.

		Bill Stewart

> In article <E1eqn7P-0002yL-VO at elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net> you write:
>>>> It occurred to me that she was performing -- by hand -- many of the same steps that a Bitcoin miner has to perform, by
>> tracing the sources and sinks of the various money flows through individuals, corporations, LLC's, law firms, etc. ...
> 
>> Task #1 -- together with Bitcoin address identification -- makes transaction tracing trivial.
> 
> It certainly makes it trivial to track payments to wallets, give or
> take laundering your bitcoins through tumblers.  So I've made a
> breakthrough, and here are the identities of Roy Moore's top five
> contributors:
> 
> 1C8cQXBp5FKjzAwHo3FH9pwVJtysJTcnft
> 6CHkNwVVzL1yn68wBTsj3tQ4P61D5ePB1N
> 22W83FarXmaPcPezedQQVc3zrBgmRAgeZB
> 5KUmVfYPcTPeDFUTTrAtitLYA3P7d4G8RQ
> 1HXxQV9GKBWgYv6YU1BByxdEJifgMuFQNN
>