A Friendly Reminder Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous

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Quote from: btcxyzzz on February 02, 2015, 05:46:56 AM

A friendly reminder that if you connect to it through Tor, you're anonymous.

Not necessarily. It depends how safe and smart you have been. If you use tor but have previously publicly posted an address that can be connected to you it can easily be found. You could also use two or more addresses to send funds which are then spend linked and could be used to track you.

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Quote from: goldkey0070 on February 01, 2015, 04:41:10 AM

I’m worried about some of you. Some of you who may be operating under the assumption that Bitcoin is anonymous. It is not. - See more at: http://bitcoinfaucetrelay.com/a-friendly-reminder-bitcoin-is-not-anonymous/#sthash.ZvEZHZ5D.dpuf

this only concerns shady people who are doing illegal stuff with bitcoin not the general users, and they know how to become anonymous! so no need for the article there either Cheesy

Again not necessarily. They may just not want their identity associated with something they are purchasing. Also, just because something the government say is illegal doesn't mean it is right or wrong to purchase it or take part in the activity.

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Quote from: goldkey0070 on February 01, 2015, 04:41:10 AM

I’m worried about some of you. Some of you who may be operating under the assumption that Bitcoin is anonymous. It is not. - See more at: http://bitcoinfaucetrelay.com/a-friendly-reminder-bitcoin-is-not-anonymous/#sthash.ZvEZHZ5D.dpuf

this only concerns shady people who are doing illegal stuff with bitcoin not the general users, and they know how to become anonymous! so no need for the article there either Cheesy

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LEALANA Bitcoin Grim Reaper

Monero will give you anonymity.

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Anyone who actually knows about Bitcoin already knows Bitcoin isn't fully anonymous, anyone who doesn't is either going to ignore this fact or is too stupid to realise anyway.

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Bitcoin is not completely anonymous by itself, no. But if you take little effort, it's quite easy to make sure your bitcoins ARE 100% anonymous.

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Bitcoin is like credit card transactions that have been recorded and can be reviewed by other people.

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Quote from: wadili89 on February 01, 2015, 08:15:02 PM

whats new ? its old news bit coins is anonymous for those who know how to make it anonymous and also its better if you are involved in such a activity and i dont support any crime

Well thats what it is, A friendly reminder.

Thread should be renamed to: A friendy reminder to buy Monero and make sellers adopt it.

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Quote from: btcxyzzz on February 02, 2015, 05:46:56 AM

A friendly reminder that if you connect to it through Tor, you're anonymous.

Not if you send the coins straight to your wallet and don't even bother mixing them and then get caught with said wallets and logged in as a criminal mastermind, which is what he did Grin

. You can have certain anonymity though if you're smart about it.

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Quote from: wadili89 on February 01, 2015, 08:15:02 PM

whats new ? its old news bit coins is anonymous for those who know how to make it anonymous and also its better if you are involved in such a activity and i dont support any crime

I dont support any crime as well but im just curious: how are you supossed to make it anonymous? even if you use a bitcoin mixer and whatnot, its useless since say you want to buy weed in SK: you have to tell the name and address to the seller, and this seller could very well be the feds. So whats the point?

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Quote from: botany on February 02, 2015, 11:45:49 AM

Quote from: wadili89 on February 01, 2015, 08:15:02 PM

whats new ? its old news bit coins is anonymous for those who know how to make it anonymous and also its better if you are involved in such a activity and i dont support any crime

Of course it is not anonymous.
It is pseudonymous and if you are not careful, your identity may be revealed.

it does not matter if you are careful or not if someone will really want to know your identity they will find ways

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Quote from: wadili89 on February 01, 2015, 08:15:02 PM

whats new ? its old news bit coins is anonymous for those who know how to make it anonymous and also its better if you are involved in such a activity and i dont support any crime

Of course it is not anonymous.
It is pseudonymous and if you are not careful, your identity may be revealed.

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Quote from: newIndia on February 01, 2015, 05:03:30 AM

Quote from: goldkey0070 on February 01, 2015, 04:41:10 AM

I’m worried about some of you. Some of you who may be operating under the assumption that Bitcoin is anonymous. It is not. - See more at: http://bitcoinfaucetrelay.com/a-friendly-reminder-bitcoin-is-not-anonymous/#sthash.ZvEZHZ5D.dpuf

Bitcoin is anonymous, only if u know how to make it anonymous.

I agree, Bitcoin could be almost untraceable if you are careful.

In Bitcoin all transaction are only random numbers, so It's difficult to find someone if these random numbers come from random servers. Tongue

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Monero - secure, private and untraceable currency.

A friendly reminder that if you connect to it through Tor, you're anonymous.

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Yes. I've read a paper publicated back in 2011, targeting on the analysis of BTC Anonymity.
The conclusion was its just quansi-anonymous.

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A friendly reminder.

Friendly? Have you read it, it spews hate and scorn all over the place.

I think he was being sarcastic when he said friendly.

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I wonder if thee governments use this information to penalize people to pay taxes in future.

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whats new ? its old news bit coins is anonymous for those who know how to make it anonymous and also its better if you are involved in such a activity and i dont support any crime

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Wow, while the article is true (bitcoin is not anonymous) I have to say, the language use by the author is just dripping in hate!

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Bitcoin is build on bitcoinchain which is like a ledger with all transactions in. It`s not anonymous. But it`s hard to find owner of the transaction unless it`s discovered in his notebook.

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bitcoin already anonymous and it will always anonymous if want to be anonymous transaction

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