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sethforprivacy.com is a personal blog at sethforprivacy.com about security and economics. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Seth's blog covers Bitcoin fungibility, privacy and mobile privacy projects. HN commenters link its 'fungibility graveyard' post as evidence in discussions of crypto seizures and tainted coins.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A simple blog about privacy, Monero, Bitcoin, and self-hosting
Most-linked posts?
- Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-02-05
What Hacker News says?
Ahh -- it seems there are quite a few cases of what you mentioned here: https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/fungibility-graveyard/
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on “In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously”Submitted Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard as a story · 252 points
HN discussion> Sidenote: one of the reasons i don't touch crypto is possible laundering charge/suspicion if the tokens happens to had passed through unsavory hands/situation A page recently posted here ([1], citing [2]) claimed that there's a market for freshly mined Bitcoin (i.e. with no history), with people paying as much as 20% markup for it to avoid such risks. I didn't make any attempt to verify this claim. [1] https://set…
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on “Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds”Submitted Dispelling Monero FUD and Myths as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBitcoin has some scripting[0] functionality, and its non-fungibility[1][2] can facilitate NFT-like colored coins[3][4] [0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fungibility [2] https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/fungibility-graveyard/ [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_Coins [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=889JSfIaPzs
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on “Solend seized $170M of user funds”Submitted Run a Monero Node – Sethforprivacy.com as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGrapheneOS attacks on other projects is well documented. They have went to the extent of trying to get a Monero community member removed by harassing them [1]. Techlore has documented some of the more nefarious actions [2]. GrapheneOS is currently involved in a dispute with CalyxOS as well. 1 - https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/community-drama-and-mobile-... 2 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg
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on “NitroPhone – Pixel 4a phone with GrapheneOS”Submitted Reviewing Privacy Enhancing Proposals for Bitcoin as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> But marking wallets as sanctioned, and threatening any wallets that transact with it to be either similarly sanctioned or subject to heightened scrutiny, would diminish the value of those coins relative to coins which can be freely traded with anyone Doesn't this already happen? Basically any bitcoin that comes out of a tumbler or any wallet address that has transacted with tumbled coins is banned on KYC exchanges…
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on “El Salvador’s Experiment with Bitcoin as Legal Tender”Submitted Community Drama and My Search for a Privacy-Preserving Mobile OS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn support of your position, this article: https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/fungibility-graveyard/
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on “Emergencies Act Rescinded in Canada”
