[willbudd]

It's not that hard if you're careful. The last line of defence of using a well-chosen set of WiFi hotspots, auto-generated MAC addresses, and an otherwise silent Linux distro is pretty impenetrable even if all other proxy layering is somehow compromised.

Provided you're disciplined enough to properly containerize all ongoing sessions, of course. Careful planning is all it takes.

[asdff]

The thing is, once you realize you should be careful, it's probably too late.

[willbudd]

I don't think there was much "oh no, I didn't realize that yet" with Satoshi. He seemed to have been the epitome of meticulously planning/scheming things well in advance.

[asdff]

But at some point he had to gain this knowledge in this space, and it wasn't instantly that he might have thought to make a cryptocurrency. He didn't start from birth covering his tracks.

[solveit]

Yes but he only has to make it so that there are dozens of people who might plausibly be Satoshi. Which, as far as a decade of scrutiny could uncover, he managed to do.

[asdff]

Only from the outset as lay people we don't know who he is. I'm sure his identity is known by intelligence agencies who have tooling that we aren't privy to.

[worker767424]

> otherwise silent Linux distro

So not Windows?

[willbudd]

Not sure what the context of your question is, but using Windows for the same purpose is probably doable too. It's just that Linux makes it a lot easier to ensure that your OS isn't any chattier on the network layer than it needs to be. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable trying to be an anonymous Windows user if the stakes were as high as we're alluding to here.

[worker767424]

My joke was that Windows phones home too much for good opsec.

[willbudd]

Oh, right. Fully agreed then.