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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: "Pseudo anonymous"
by
Kazimir
on 07/08/2015, 21:51:34 UTC
To me, the diagram you show actually depicts exactly what I'm concerned about. I understand that with zero information it doesn't directly enable someone to immediately lookup the name of the owner of the addresses and identify the transactions. But, does it not just become a matter of piecing the puzzle together, filling-in known information, and then some deduction that reveals the missing information?

So, as a holder of a bunch of different addresses, over time, as information becomes known about the other addresses in the tree, then my unknown addresses, through deduction, become more and more known, closer and closer to 100% known. Does not this imply that I would have to keep a constant monitor of my addresses to check, today, how "compromised" my anonymity is?

Right now, today, pseudo anonymous is very close to anonymous, and very far from 100% transparent. In the future pseudo anonymous approaches 100% transparency. No?
No, anyone you do business with, only needs one address of you. When you say "as information becomes known about the other addresses", what do you mean? It becomes known by whom? Nobody is in the position, or has the required inside information, to keep track of all your addresses, or all the other addresses of 3rd parties you may be doing business with. They have nothing to deduct anything from.