Questions regarding how much information is revealed through crypto-currency transactions or related issues about minimizing or analyzing transactions to identify their sources and other properties.
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Are we anonymous against governments? [duplicate]
If all transactions are public knowledge and coins are identifiable and thus traceable. With the power of subpoena can't a government uncover who bought the coin(s) from an exchange. It might be ...
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Does the ZeroCoin protocol fulfill its promise of anonymity?
Zerocoin is a new cryptographic extension to Bitcoin that (if adopted) would bring true cryptographic anonymity to Bitcoin.
Has anyone seriously analyzed the protocol and verified it works as ...
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Why is anonymity important in bitcoins? [closed]
Before I get started I would like to say I am an advocate of a virtual, peer to peer currency and bitcoins to an extent. I think some of the worst aspects of capitalism as well as huge amounts of ...
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Measuring levels of hacker participation on the Bitcoin network
Is there any reliable way of estimating the number of black-hat hacker controlled miners? I was thinking about the common wisdom that BitCoin should have been implemented with a hashing mechanism ...
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How can one remain relatively anonymous while using Ripple?
Inspired by this and that.
What can an individual that uses Ripple do in order to remain as anonymous as possible? How do Ripple's "anonymity profile" compare to Bitcoin?
One specific difference is ...
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Running Multibit on Tails - connecting error [closed]
I'm trying to get Multibit wallet set up on my new Tails USB. It's up and running, but isn't able to connect to the internet. It just says "Connecting" in red.
The message log says this -
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Have there been case studies of how anonymous bitcoins are?
The blockchain has a lot of information about all bitcoin transactions.
I've heard a lot of conjecture about how anonymous bitcoins transactions are, but I haven't seen a scientific study.
Are there ...
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How difficult is it to determine the owner of some bitcoins? [duplicate]
When Bitcoin was making the media waves back in 2011, a lot of it focused on the anonymity aspect of bitcoins, the hacks, and the illegal contents of the silk road onion address. From my limited ...
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Do the various Ripple clients leak any data about account names?
If I use the official client at Ripple.com, and add someone to my contact list ... does the information "I believe that X's Ripple address is Y" get stored anywhere in unencrypted form? Is it ...
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What are the privacy implications of filtered blockchain downloads?
There is now "Bloom filter" support in the network protocol for sending only relevant transactions to lightweight clients.
What are the privacy implications of the bloom filter? Does it leak any ...
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Easiest way to set up non computer-literate person with Bitcoin
What would be the easiest/quickest way to get somebody who isn't computer-literate set up to have the ability to transfer money to me via Bitcoin? Also, Bitcoin touts that it is anonymous. Is it any ...
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Instawire fees over Bitcoin Central fees and their respective KYC policies?
Instawire, Bitcoin-Central, Instawallet, Paytunia and Paymium are seem to be closely related, they cross reference each other on their sites, though their respective guarantees for their services are ...
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Anonymity through paying by bitcoin
I am considering the VPN service Privateinternetaccess. One of it's payment methods is bitcoins. As described on this page paying with bitcoins strengthens anonymity. In contradiction, this page ...
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Is it possible to view others' transactions in bitcoin client?
This seems like a really basic question, but I'm having trouble searching for answers on it. My understanding is that my bitcoin client (Bitcoin v0.7.1-beta) has basically theoretically downloaded the ...
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Are there mixing services or online wallets that are explicitly compliant with anti-laundering laws?
I'm interested in mixing services (0% taint) that are compliant with the most conservative anti-money laundering laws.
My goal is to have anonymity between peers in a transaction, but to remain ...
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Is there an application or a site grouping addresses by user graphically?
Addresses can be grouped as belonging to the same user (or, better, same "account") by grouping together the addresses that participate as inputs to a single transaction, and doing it transitively. ...
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Is it possible for a decentralized currency to have untraceable transactions?
I have been reading a bit about Bitcoin recently and am fascinated with the project and think it has great potential.
However, one thing I think it needs in order to gain mass popularity is to make ...
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Bitcoin mixing and transaction sizes
I'm pretty clear on how a Bitcoin mixer obscures transaction history, but I don't understand how an observer is not able to reasonably link the source and destination wallets simply based on the ...
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What are the benefits and drawbacks of using Bitcoin with ToR vs Azure Service Bus?
I would like to have an anonymous Bitcoin server that accepts inbound connections. It seems that my current options include ToR and the Hidden Session Protocol or the Azure Service Bus.
What are ...
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How does Blockviewer work? (tool to discover identities of “anonymous” bitcoin transactions)
I'm trying to follow the logical sequence of how blockviewer works and only see this one blog entry for the process, but no "part 2".
Can someone describe the techniques to link a wallet address to ...
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Vouching for (or against) the reputation of a bitcoin user
Since it's possible to link non obfuscated transactions to a "user" does is make sense, or it is possible for anonymized users with an established transaction history to "vouch" for another?
I'm ...
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How do I pay for something anonymously from the UK using bitcoins?
I've seen the following guide but it's no good as I can't use bitinstant from the UK. Can someone recommend an alternative?
Step 1.
Download and install TOR
Step 2.
While using TOR create a Tormail ...
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How can one be truly anonymous without mining?
Assume that person wanting to be anonymous has reason to do so. Powerful enemies will see what is bought with bitcoins, perhaps web blog on server and domain name. Even in nations with rule of law, ...
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Can a miner remain anonymous?
Can you differentiate the miners from the normal clients, by doing some frequency analysis on ip-addresses that announce new blocks? Or will the new block propagate so fast around the network by ...
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Linking a transaction to a Bitcoin user
Has anyone tried and perhaps succeeded at linking a transaction to a possibly controversial site (such as Wikileaks) to a Bitcoin forum user by their forum signatures? I know a lot of people disclose ...
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Which exchanges are Tor-friendly?
Mt. Gox's sign-up page states:
Please be advised that accessing your account via the Tor network
and/or public proxies may result in a temporary suspension of your
account, and having to ...
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How can I hide my bitcoin transactions to protect anonymity?
I read many related questions about the pseudo-anonymity and bitcoin transaction tracking.
So if I understand correctly, bitcoins, or better, transactions can be tracked for their entire lifetime.
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How to broadcast a transaction anonymously
Is it possible to broadcast a transaction to the network without revealing my personal IP address? My first guess is to connect bitcoind over Tor with proxy=127.0.0.1:9050. Is it the good way to do it ...
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Anonymity versus trust
Bitcoiners seem to love to talk about anonymity. But to me, anonymous transactions are far from Bitcoin's greatest strength. And to some, the need for high anonymity is the first sign that someone is ...
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How can I control which coins to spend in a transaction?
When creating a bitcoin transaction, you have to choose which coins to use in them. The standard client does this in a way to avoid unconfirmed inputs and minimize the number of inputs and amount of ...
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How much anonymity do mining pools provide?
How much anonymity does an average mining pool provide to the user (securing your email, other personal information)? What is the best pool to use if you want to remain anonymous, and which is the ...
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Are bitcoins INHERENTLY fungible?
Does each bitcoin has a unique identifier, like currency notes have serial numbers? If so, could you trace a particular bitcoin's ownership chain (ie find the current owner of a particular bitcoin by ...
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Does sending from a green address improve my anonymity?
If I am interested in improving my anonymity when dealing with a merchant, does sending from a Green Address help?
My proposed steps for buying from a merchant as anonymously as possible would be:
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Does the bitcoin block contain minimal transaction detail? (Is it as private as possible given the proof-of-work design?)
From http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/508/could-one-prevent-double-spending-in-decentralized-digital-currencies-like-bitc
"Now, the only information about the transaction that needs to be ...
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Knowing a single transaction can you track down a Bitcoin user?
I have used this transaction to donate to Wikileaks. I have applied no special techniques to obsure my identity. How much information can find out about me on the blockchain. What tools would you use?
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Does Bitcoin wallet encryption also protect my sending and receiving addresses?
Bitcoin wallet encryption makes sure (by encrypting the private keys with a passphrase) that someone who finds your computer or your Dropbox or your backup drive (including wallet.dat) cannot spend ...
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Is there any way the Bitcoin network could resist a viral tainted-coin tagging system implemented by regulators?
Already it's possible for MtGox etc. to detect spends of coins that have certain well-known thefts in their history. If regulators forced audits on exchanges and key popular merchants, as well as ...
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What would be the process for identifying a person that performed a transaction from a wallet on a personal device?
I presume the legal process would be something along the lines of
Get IP address from blockchain.
Get ISP to tell you whose that is or was at the time.
So I expect that this would normally require ...
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Can I hide my IP address by blocking incoming connections in the client?
I know that it is possible to find out the IP address of a transaction by connecting the client to every node in the network. Dan Kaminsky wrote:
When you are connected to every node, the first ...
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What Bitcoin Mixing/Laundry Services are availble today?
A Bitcoin Laundry or Mixing Service is a service that accepts BTC payments, and returns the same BTC amount, only from coins that are unassociated to the original BTC. It is a privacy service that ...
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How can one remain relatively anonymous while using Bitcoin?
Bitcoin transactions are pseudo-anonymous. What can an individual that uses Bitcoin do in order to remain as anonymous as possible?
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How can P2Pool charge a fee?
P2Pool is an open source peer to peer mining pool. It currently charges a fee of 0.5%.
Is it possible to just fork P2Pool protocol and eliminate the fee? Has this been done? If so, how can P2Pool ...
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How do I see the IP address of a bitcoin transaction?
How do I see the IP address that someone used to send or receive bitcoins with? Is it stored in the blockchain?
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Is there an easy way to search all the transactions?
Is than an easy way to search the list of all bitcoin transactions? For example to find all the bitcoins sent to or from an address?
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How is it possible to launder bitcoins?
Some services, such as bitcoinlaundry.com, claim that they can launder your bitcoins.
Since all bitcoin transactions are publicly logged, how is this done? Wouldn't it be possible to trace back the ...
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How anonymous are Bitcoin transactions?
I read some sources that say Bitcoin transactions are anonymous, some that say they are semi-anonymous, and some that say they are not anonymous at all. In what ways are the transactions anonymous ...
