Students at Cambridge University have figured out how to return the stolen bitcoins
Source:To date, no one has yet managed to accurately count the number of lost and stolen . In cryptocommunist there are lots of theories on this, officially, out of circulation forever out coins with a total worth a billion dollars. Why it is impossible to count the loss?
The Reason is simple — unlike dollar bills, each bitcoin has its serial number, so we can not single out a special coin among the total. However, a few students from Cambridge University have managed to achieve some success in this direction.
theHow to recover lost bitcoins
The Young researchers produced a small work called «the Tentacles of crime». The document Mansur Ahmed, Ilya Sumilon and rose Anderson described his system for tracking stolen coins. In theory cryptocurrency you can even bring back the original owner.
«the Tentacles of crime» also described multiple simultaneous transactions from the same address for different wallets. According to students, such operations are quite rare, but almost all of them are done specifically for money laundering.
So, the document describes two methods of tracking coins. The second of them, it seems, is the most effective. He has the name Taintchain and uses the FIFO method (first in, first out). Taintchain splits each bitcoin on a indivisible part (1 Satoshi) and records their every move.
Source: Bitcoinist
Then use the FIFO has fallen to the wallet of the attacker's coins can be associated with their original owners. In other words, the first stolen bitcoins are spent from the first potential hacker. The researchers acknowledge that their method has some drawbacks, but in practice it needs to show positive results. In any case, they «open to experiments and will work on improving their technique».
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