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Re: MyBitcoin Investigative Bureau -- PARTIAL MYBITCOIN ADDRESS LIST RELEASED
by
bencoder
on 13/01/2012, 09:09:01 UTC
How did this yield a 2.5 MB list with 100000 entries?


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We gathered these addresses by assuming that if two addresses both appear as inputs in the same transaction, then they are from the same wallet.

So, I presume something like this:

Take the list of addresses you know belonged to MBC;
For each address in list:
    For each outgoing transaction from that address:
        If transaction has more than 1 input:
            Add any input addresses to the list if they aren't already there

Seems quite reasonable