Students Design Database to Track Bitcoin from Fraudulent Activities
If reports are to be believed, a team of Computer Science students from Trinity College, Dublin has designed a database to track fraudulent Bitcoin activities. According to a paper published in science news website phys.org, the aforementioned team of staff and students have literally created a "Bitcoin regulator" that could watch over patterns between multiple Bitcoin addresses and their relationship with each other. For instance, if an individual is operating multiple Bitcoin accounts, the new mechanism will be able to connect dots between these accounts. This will eventually lead....
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