Quote from: owm123 on May 11, 2016, 11:28:34 PM

Quote from: xanmanluca on May 11, 2016, 07:56:02 PM

Hello BTC forums,

So the biggest quality bitcoin has which serves as an advantage to all the other currencies, is the ability to stay anonymous. Now after reading an article about anonymity (Link here: https://bitcoin.org/en/protect-your-privacy) I came to realize that I exposed my identity, by using circle to deposit directly from my bank account to bitcoin...I wasn't thinking. This was my first bitcoin transaction EVER, I am new to bitcoin but have done plenty of research.

So my question is, did I just kill my anonymity for good by making that small mistake? Or will my anonymity rejuvenate once I spend all the BTC from that transaction? (since my compromised address is attached to it)

In the future, if I make transaction from the same bitcoin wallet not associated to the same BTC that I received from my bank, will those transactions be anonymous? Or will it be possibly linked back to me somehow...

Thanks guys! #FirstPostBtw

Since bitcoin is only pseudo-anonymous (http://www.bitcoinisnotanonymous.com/), whenever a single address of yours is linked with your real identity, all future and transactions involving this address can be be linked to you. Blockchain does not forget its past, unfortunately.

You can try to break this link by mixing or moving the bitcoins into anon altocoin, and than back to your new bitcoin address.

gosh all this stuff is so confusing, forgive me for asking the same questions but i need to clarify; Let's say I mix my bitcoins and receive them to a new address using the same core wallet, from there on out i'll be anonymous? assuming I don't make anymore mistakes after that?