AI Is Making Crypto Wallet Deanonymization Much Cheaper
Let me start with the number that ruined my week.
Some researchers ran an experiment recently where they used an off-the-shelf AI agent to take a public wallet, scrape years of someone's social media exhaust, and figure out who was behind it. Nothing exotic. Nothing classified. Nothing that requires a Chainalysis subscription or a friend at the FBI.
The cost? Often less than four dollars per attempt.
I sat with that for a while. Four bucks. That is less than the airport coffee I was drinking when I read the paper. That is the price of unmasking somebody who probably believed, in their bones, that their wallet was a string of letters nobody could trace back to them.
Here is the thing nobody really wants to say in this industry: your wallet has been loud for years. It has been screaming personal information at anyone who walked past. We...
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