Summary of news on ‘Bitcoins used in child sex abuse deals targeted’ Source: BBC Bitcoins used to buy images of child sex abuse could soon be tracked and blocked as two companies share data on how the virtual currency is spent The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which tracks abuse sites, is passing data to start-up Elliptic, which helps Bitcoin exchanges monitor transactions “We are seeing it being used on the more dedicated commercial abuse sites that we monitor on a regular basis,” said Sarah Smith, IWF’s technical researcher Bitcoins’ “pseudo-anonymity” made it a very attractive payment system in criminal circles, she added The IWF’s work to disrupt abuse sites had left it with a list of Bitcoin addresses associated with sites selling abuse content and their customers, said Ms
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