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Bitcoin would be an awesome "dead drop" for untraceable communication of small data.


Actually, we already have such things like alt.anonymous and they work well in practice; see my just submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819799


Except you'd have to spend some money, so the origin would always be known.


There are still some Bitcoin Faucets open, such as FreeCoins[1]. They give out almost nothing, but it's enough to make transactions just for the registration, and you don't need to provide any information.

[1] http://freecoins.herokuapp.com/




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