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Peter Todd
@peterktodd
I can confirm I've seen evidence rhat Chainalysis gets a lot of info from exchanges, but I don't have permission to share it. :/ Also, if Chainalysis doesn't understand how Monero works... WTF. That's far too incompetent to be gathering evidence that could jail people.
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Yes it is, chainanalysis doesn't even offer a monero suite. They bugger us from time to time and don't even understand the basics of how it works. There only edge was that they started on kraken and other snitch exchanges and have a fuckton of customers data access.
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Peter Todd
@peterktodd
If you want to get that proof, simply use API access to Chainanalysis along with some test transactions. Be good if
@krakenfx
could go on record to deny this; if they're sharing your personal info with third party spies like Chainanalysis that's pretty shitty.
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
We only share KYC data with banking partners. Outside of that, we don’t share any personal information without a subpoena. We might use 3rd parties to improve/verify our data, do our own investigations but we are not a data provider to anyone.
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Peter Todd
@peterktodd
To be clear, Chainanalysis isn't a banking partner? ...and how do you prevent those banking partners from sharing with Chainanalysis?
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
Correct, and we are not providing banking partners blockchain wallets or related data, only identity docs for verifying banking information. Not sure why they would share that with Chainalysis. We have only used chainalysis for our own blockchain investigations.
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Peter Todd
@peterktodd
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@CoinChocula
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twitter.com/O80925253/stat Was curious if you'd deny that tweet basically. Of course, if this is a rogue employee you wouldn't necessarily know. :/
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Yes it is, chainanalysis doesn't even offer a monero suite. They bugger us from time to time and don't even understand the basics of how it works. There only edge was that they started on kraken and other snitch exchanges and have a fuckton of customers data access.
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
I see. Could be others have provided data to them. Don’t know what “started on kraken” means — founder is our former COO and we were an early user of the product but no special relationship. Good question for people to ask their exchanges.
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StrikerBee
@StrikerBee
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Question! If you search on an address. *which is the receiving address from your wallet* , which you do with the Kraken account on chainalysis, aren't you revealing data? (One of the reasons we keep our analysis tools inhouse, so we never have to rely on 3th parties)