Coinbase, ICE and Bitcoin Blockchain Surveillance – Bitcoin Magazine

This is an opinion piece by Justin Ehrenhofer, vice president of operations and multi-coin Cake Wallet, a Bitcoin privacy educator and a moderator for r / CryptoCurrency subreddit.

Coinbase recently came under fire after a Freedom Of Information Act request from Tech Inquiry revealed details of the contract to give the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) access to the Coinbase Tracer blockchain analysis tool.

Coinbase agreed to provide ICE monitoring data on 12 blockchains (including Bitcoins). Among other tools, ICE gained access to Coinbase’s “multi-hop analysis”, “Lightning network survey”, “historical geospatial data” and “transaction mixing and shielded transaction analysis”. You can see a summary of the scope in this screenshot taken by Tech Inquiry:

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