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Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yup-its-bitcoin dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from University College Dublin have conducted an analysis of anonymity on Bitcoin, and found it is not inherently anonymous, and that in many cases, users and their transactions can be identified. They use techniques such as context discovery and flow analysis to investigate and visualize an alleged theft of Bitcoins, which, at the time of the theft, had a market value of approximately half a million U.S. dollars."

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  1. Re:herp derp by Asic+Eng · · Score: 1, Informative

    Anyone who spells "liter" as "litre" is a moron.

    Or French.

  2. Re:herp derp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Except that both spellings are correct.
    Litre

  3. Re:Slashdot and Bitcoin by jandrese · · Score: 3, Informative

    Are you sure you didn't do a search for bitcoins yourself earlier? Google will remember that. I tried the same autocomplete query just now and only got:

    slashdot rss
    slashdot effect
    slashdot reader
    slashdot.org
    slashdot wiki

    No bitcoin mentions on the first page either.

    --

    I read the internet for the articles.
  4. Re:Slashdot and Bitcoin by kaizendojo · · Score: 3, Informative

    I could care less about Bitcoin, and have NEVER searched for it, and my results were identical to the OPs. Just saying.