Bitcoin fans spot Mr Robot easter egg, start sending ‘Elliot’ their cryptocurrency

Eagle-eyed cryptocurrency fans spotted a Bitcoin address in USA Network’s Mr Robot and decided to start sending BTC. In the latest episode, vigilante hacker Elliot Alderson is coding a program for “cleaning coins” with a “crypto tumbler.” Presumably, he’s looking to steal some Bitcoin, and wants to be able to cash it out without being caught. Elliot’s mixer is likely to make tracking Bitcoin more difficult, much like popular BTC solution CoinJoin, which allows multiple users to shuffle coins with each other to hide their history. These programs have grown in popularity in response to the rise of analytic firms like Elliptic and…

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