--snipe--
Sorry "personal army" was blown out of proportions but considering so many active alt's a person can have just surprises me .And all are above Jr Member +.Anyway .what's the point of generating a new receiving address when we can trace which other addresses are part of it and specifically we can view the entire wallet.Kinda kills the anonymity of the transactions.Does't it?
I will try to keep it short, because I dont want to derail the thread. Yes, you need to keep the coins separated (e.g. via core's Coin Control) and/or use mixing services (like e.g. CoinJoin). Even if you dont take that extra step they cant find all connections because there are not always connections. The longer you use one wallet the more likely it is though.
A high number of accounts is hardly a surprise to me. Just consider for what you can sell them. Make 1-14 posts per 14 days per account for a while and you have a few you can sell at (full) member or even Sr. Its not against the rules as long as you keep the posts constructive and dont start talking to yourself. I personally think I would be too confused after a few days to continue, but I know there are some account farmers out there.
On a more serious and on topic note, wallet explorer is just an automation of what e.g. Quickseller has done manually for ages to find alt accounts of scammers. My only problem is that its unclear how they filter for CoinJoin transactions, so there might be some false positives here or there.
I'm usually checking for the transactions linking addresses together aswell, not just blindly trusting walletexploer.
But I think it's a better way to post those wallet links instead a long X is connected to Y via txid_A, Y is connected to Z via txid_B,...
I know you do and yes these long chains are the kind of proof that are a pain in the arse to verify.
Sorry "personal army" was blown out of proportions but considering so many active alt's a person can have just surprises me .And all are above Jr Member +.Anyway .what's the point of generating a new receiving address when we can trace which other addresses are part of it and specifically we can view the entire wallet.Kinda kills the anonymity of the transactions.Does't it?
Since joinal and kostya.ash connect both groups, its even more.
It would be interesting to see the posting patterns over all accounts. Might be something that can be estimated with the account pricer[1].
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http://www.bctalkaccountpricer.info/