Quote from: Beef Supreme on March 11, 2014, 04:23:06 PM

Quote from: Rampion on March 10, 2014, 09:27:18 AM

After the Gox dabatase leak the names and home addresses of pretty much everybody involved in BTC are now public, at least among the criminal community.

Those singing the song that goes "I don't mix my coins because I have nothing to hide" are either:

a) totally brainwashed/incredibly naive
b) just stupid.

Even if you mined the vast majority of your coins and used an exchange just to cash out a minor part of your holdings, your total BTC balance can be discovered by trivial blockchain analysis, following the links with just one deposit/withdrawal address.

Morale of the story: Everybody should ALWAYS mix their coins and use Tor for BTC related activities. Information is power. Never give it away.

LOL, yeah but, didn't those same users just lose their ass and are now broke?

Not at all. Only a minority of Gox customers had still positive balances, the majority had already left Gox for good in the past, I'd say that an "orderly stampede" started to happen after the many red flags that were blatantly obvious since at least April, 2013 - just check the leaked info, the accounts with positive balances are just a fraction of the total Gox userbase.