Questions tagged [privacy]
Questions regarding the information that is leaked through cryptocurrency transactions or related processes, when subject to analysis and attempts of identification of sources and other properties.
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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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What is BlitCoin?
I saw BlitCoin mentioned on this forum thread, but didn't understand what it was.
Can someone explain what does it do?
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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 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 ...
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