So…Snitch-To-Earn Is a Thing Now?
TL;DR
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Blockchain intelligence agency ‘Arkham Intelligence’ has created a dox-to-earn program, the place customers are paid to anonymously determine the house owners of specific crypto wallets.
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At first look, it may not appear to be the worst concept – many scammers have been tracked and uncovered utilizing comparable strategies.
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However there’s one other approach this sort of info can be utilized, and ah…it is fairly darn grim:
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Discover wallets holding a considerable amount of crypto → determine the proprietor → kidnap and rob them. (Not nice).
Full Story
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Lighting fireworks inside.
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Speaking politics at Thanksgiving.
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Telling your nan that her ziti has “fallen off.”
These are all stuff you might do, however actually should not.
Add to that checklist: making a dox-to-earn program, the place customers are paid to anonymously determine the house owners of specific crypto wallets.
Sadly, that is precisely what the blockchain intelligence agency ‘Arkham Intelligence’ has finished.
At first look, it may not appear to be the worst concept – many scammers have been tracked and uncovered utilizing comparable strategies.
(Hell, we have fun ZachXBT and Coffeezilla for doing precisely that!).
However there’s one other approach this sort of info can be utilized, and ah…
It is fairly darn grim:
Discover wallets holding a considerable amount of crypto → determine the proprietor → kidnap and rob them.
These sorts of robberies are often known as ‘$5 wrench assaults’ – as a result of for those who can verify someones wealth/identification/location, all it is advisable full the job is an inexpensive wrench out of your native ironmongery store.
Placing a face/title to a crypto pockets has beforehand been a tall order.
However Arkham Intelligence’s nameless dox-to-earn program makes getting that type of information a whooole lot simpler.
Yikes!
