Quote from: mobile4ever on July 18, 2012, 06:43:57 PM

Quote from: znort987 on July 04, 2012, 11:50:13 PM

Based on the interesting comment below (found in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88486.0;all)

Quote from: pirateat40 on June 21, 2012, 04:50:11 PM

The following address is managed by GPUMAX.

1PSf86KnLuzM7Ris5kDhTEZwooR3p2iyfV

-pirate

I went did a little blockchain detective work using this little
tool I wrote: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88584.0;all

Outcome: the address above can be linked to a cluster
of 1046 other addresses that all provably belong to the
same person, and some of which have non-zero balances:

Code:

11.00000000 75f71dd34188a350aba441ae001e289a7c66f627
   3285.30000000 76500990ce877a2a99856c149348f53e21cb5080
   100.00000000 7b40072b163779193f7ff68bc49141b534e79d64
   5000.00000000 945de4015b7a64ea7877ebbf5030acef21229473
   6.45096432 9d06959323eae4c28409a75671b40f38733a9b11
   2500.00000000 9ec8eb33cc6d419b1473a76983da2c1eee72ae47
   1300.00000000 a1ed53cf96bef7ee2e8ccf69b07c262f395a7ebb
   13.00000000 d13dadfde2c9f4d2e5a7eea12dc3bd2290db11d9
   7000.00000011 d4cd3d4c8403dadcc83dc08b161cd31271e965bc
   2900.00000000 d8b0f7ca8576145f3099857f041bf4c479fd8f8a
   237.50000000 f62cfd39776b3ba146aae9f2761fe74346c7f024
   10000.00000000 f8e18a8088b92842c4f8655ea0383d399620906b

What have we learned ? Not much, except for the fact that pirate
controls non trivial amounts of coins, at the very least BTC 32353.3 ...

That's on the order of USD 200k+ ...

And that's probably only the tip of the iceberg.

Which goes to prove, again, that bitcoins are not anonymous. They lack this one ingredient to truly be like "offline" money.

Cash wouldn't be, if serial numbers were recorded.

Bitcoins can be the same way, if private keys are exchanged.