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Re: Address to wallet matching.
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odolvlobo
on 01/03/2019, 01:57:36 UTC
⭐ Merited by Jet Cash (2)
If i send bitcoins from my blockchain wallet to my coinbase wallet, is it possible to know that the coins came from a coinbase wallet by the bitcoin address?

The answer to your question is complicated. There is no way to associate an address with a service just by the address itself. Addresses are effectively random.

However, addresses can sometimes be associated with services by analyzing the transactions that use them and analyzing how they are used in those transactions. Here is an example regarding blockchain.info:

When blockchain.info started out, each account was given a single address and that address was reused. In general, no other wallets did that. So, you could look at a transaction and deduce that it was a blockchain.info wallet if the change was sent back to the input address. Thankfully, that behavior is gone now that blockchain.info has moved to HD wallets.