Category chainanalysis

Know-Your-Customer: The Quiet Kill Switch
Bitcoin Magazine
Know-Your-Customer: The Quiet Kill Switch
The know-your-customer (KYC) threat isn’t coming. It’s already here, and it didn’t arri...
Aug, 08, 2025
4 min read
by Bitcoin Magazine

The Spiral Scroll: Wallet Clustering Basics
Bitcoin Magazine
The Spiral Scroll: Wallet Clustering Basics
Every transaction consists of a list of inputs and outputs. By going through the publ...
Jun, 24, 2025
2 min read
by Bitcoin Magazine

KYC, Bitcoin, and the failed hopes of AML policies: Tracking funds on-chain
Why do we erect expensive AML gates and push the bad guys from crypto towards hardly traceable cash, when on-chain analytics can track them down by...
Mar, 20, 2024
7 min read
by Bitcoin Magazine

Why Blockchain Surveillance Needs FinCEN’s PATRIOT Act Ploy
FinCEN has proposed to regulate Bitcoin privacy tech under the PATRIOT Act. But the data used to support FinCEN‘s proposal is partial at best, high...
Oct, 25, 2023
5 min read
by Bitcoin Magazine