It's not possible to trace one's identity through a BTC wallet. If that were possible, it would defeat the original purpose of cryptocurrency.
It is possible when the owner publish the connection through social media, KYCed himself on exchange, etc etc. In short: other than doing privacy-focused steps when you make a transaction/receiving bitcoin, make sure you don't give away your identity if you don't want chainanalysis to link it up. 
Topic: BTC Wallet Tracing (Read 428 times)
so its not completely anonymous?
It's not just "not completely anonymous", but not anonymous at all.
Bitcoin is pseudonymous, which means that you can perfectly identify transactions between pseudonyms.
And with additional information linking a given pseudonym to an identity, it becomes completely transparent.
There are privacy enhancing techniques and wallets which implement protocols to preserve privacy. But the base layer of bitcoin is not anonymous.
so its not completely anonymous?
how could one improve the privacy of their transactions even more?
is there even a way to be totally anonymous?
how could one improve the privacy of their transactions even more?
is there even a way to be totally anonymous?
This all depends on how the transaction was made.
When you make a transaction via some external service that has your KYC info then of course it will not be totally anonymous.
Or when you use you home internet connection thats also a direct lead to you.
But when you desire it to be anonymous you have to follow the right steps for example you could just push the TX to the network on a proxy or on a public connection thats being used by the masses, for example in a mall then it will be very, very hard to track this back to you.
It's as anonymous as you make it yourself.
is it possible to trace from BTC wallet address that who is the owner of it or its name or in anyway some clue to be near to it like from which exchange or to which exchange or software BTC wallet belongs from
I think thats impossible.Then you are wrong.
Quite a lot of exchanges combine all deposits on a cold wallet which can be linked to a specific exchange because 1) they publicly disclose their cold wallet address(es) or 2) it is quite trivial to find out to which exchange a given address belongs.
Please look at the posts on the previous page.
I also need help with this
I had this bitcoin wallet address 1DBU8EeoJcTNkfjz6hTTjR1RAH3DEzh9YS
But cannot remember the exchange or email i used when i signed up
Can anyone help please
Nobody can help you in anyway.I had this bitcoin wallet address 1DBU8EeoJcTNkfjz6hTTjR1RAH3DEzh9YS
But cannot remember the exchange or email i used when i signed up
Can anyone help please
If you don't have access to the address' private key or recovery/back up phrase or do not remember your exchange's login details then forget about the bitcoins.
Just wondering who forgets the account details where they kept the money?
Bitcoin addresses are psuedononymous. The addresses created by the wallet can all be traced back to that wallet. All the transactional details are there.
But there's no information on who exactly used the wallet unless they purposefully linked their identity to the address used a vanity address or digital signature, or used a 3rd party address like Coinbase or an app like cash app which ties to their identity. So the answer is No.
But there's no information on who exactly used the wallet unless they purposefully linked their identity to the address used a vanity address or digital signature, or used a 3rd party address like Coinbase or an app like cash app which ties to their identity. So the answer is No.
You would have to hack the exchange.
Not really.
Most (if not all) exchanges do consolidate the deposits on a hot- or cold wallet.
And most often those addresses are known (or at least can be found out by depositing multiple times to an exchange).
Tracing and/or linking a depositing transaction to an exchange isn't that hard in most cases.
I just thought of the old wallet like the wallet.dat file use to store bitcoin private key and the other details that a wallet has. Because bitcoin could be easily acquired before through mining or even faucet others had not thought just leaving the wallet with bitcoins they store with it. As time pass by, rhe owner of the wallet usually forgot the password and must thinking on how to take the bitcoins or sell it. It will be so hard to access fund without the wallet password. So, it is like that you own the private key, you own the public key address but you do not own the bitcoin unless you remember the password of the wallet.
Anyway, I was just trying to participate in the discussion and learn from it. I can learn a lot from here in this section.
Your key's your coins, not your key's not your coins.
This phrase may not going to apply I think because you have the private and public key but you can't take bitcoin or like bitcoin does not being own. Anyway, I was just trying to participate in the discussion and learn from it. I can learn a lot from here in this section.
I am helping a friend who bought btc earlier in 2010 and now he only have this btc address and do not remember from where he bought it
Don't have access to the wallet or account
If he bought coins, and then moved them to a different address (ie. moved them off the exchange)... then the exchange is not going to be able to assist. The fulfilled their part of the deal when the coins where sent.If they didn't move the coins from the exchange, then they might be able to recover access to the account... providing that the exchange is still functioning and they have access to the same email address used to register.
You could try: https://www.walletexplorer.com/ and see if the address is linked to any of the known exchanges... it's a long shot tho.
I had this bitcoin wallet address 1DBU8EeoJcTNkfjz6hTTjR1RAH3DEzh9YS
But cannot remember the exchange or email i used when i signed up
I'm not sure that is an exchange address... If you look at the list of transactions here: https://www.walletexplorer.com/address/1DBU8EeoJcTNkfjz6hTTjR1RAH3DEzh9YSBut cannot remember the exchange or email i used when i signed up
You'll find they all end up sending change back to the same address, like this example: https://www.walletexplorer.com/txid/75dffb286896b9a1b86eb49864a22fb32787ddc5ef2e0ddea43f41f42248793d
That is not generally how exchanges work. So, it seems that this was a "single key" wallet... possibly something like an "imported" Electrum wallet, or perhaps MultiBit?
I also need help with this
I had this bitcoin wallet address 1DBU8EeoJcTNkfjz6hTTjR1RAH3DEzh9YS
But cannot remember the exchange or email i used when i signed up
Can anyone help please
Nobody can help you in anyway.I had this bitcoin wallet address 1DBU8EeoJcTNkfjz6hTTjR1RAH3DEzh9YS
But cannot remember the exchange or email i used when i signed up
Can anyone help please
If you don't have access to the address' private key or recovery/back up phrase or do not remember your exchange's login details then forget about the bitcoins.
Just wondering who forgets the account details where they kept the money?
Don't have access to the wallet or account
So, your friend does not know the exchange on which they bought bitcoins, and they have not visited it since 2010? You can post the address publicly and the community would look into it and try and decipher the exchange
P.S; if he doesn't remember the exchange, he/she would likely not know the email address that was used to register it nor the password of the account, proving ownership of the account would be a struggle.
Your key's your coins, not your key's not your coins.
Don't have access to the wallet or account
I am helping a friend who bought btc earlier in 2010 and now he only have this btc address and do not remember from where he bought it
If the coins are on the address then what is the issue exactly ?
I am helping a friend who bought btc earlier in 2010 and now he only have this btc address and do not remember from where he bought it
If you bought crypto and you don't have access to it and you don't know where you bought it then it's best to stay far far away from crypto to prevent further fatal mistakes from happening.
If you do find out where you bought it, then you should contact them and send them a wallet address so that they can send you your coins.
I have seen exchanges that deliberately did not transfer the coins and only acted when the customer noticed it and started to demand their coins.
Be careful because mistakes can usually not be made undone.
If you do find out where you bought it, then you should contact them and send them a wallet address so that they can send you your coins.
I have seen exchanges that deliberately did not transfer the coins and only acted when the customer noticed it and started to demand their coins.
Be careful because mistakes can usually not be made undone.
so If I DM you with the BTC address can you help out in looking from which exchange it comes from ?
Why would you need this information? I'm struggling off the top of my head to justify wanting to identify the exchange an address belongs to, especially as such address is definitely not yours. How is the process of getting the info that from which exchange this address is associated to ?
Exchanges usually have hot wallets and cold storage; they use hot wallets to maintain liquidity on their platform, cold storage are for safe guarding of funds and such addresses are not connected to the internet, so they do not make frequent transactions.By tracing the transactions to and from an exchange's hot wallet, the address of a account holder on that platform can be identified.
so If I DM you with the BTC address can you help out in looking from which exchange it comes from ?
How is the process of getting the info that from which exchange this address is associated to ?
Exchanges usually have hot wallets and cold storage; they use hot wallets to maintain liquidity on their platform, cold storage are for safe guarding of funds and such addresses are not connected to the internet, so they do not make frequent transactions.By tracing the transactions to and from an exchange's hot wallet, the address of an account holder on that platform can be identified. You can however not get any detail besides this.
You would have to hack the exchange.
Or you would have to get the Government involved so that they will confiscate the user database and conveniently hand it over to you
I personally don't think the second one is an option, so happy hacking
However, sometimes you can identify addresses by their exchange if they use a prefix.
For example like this:
These are exchange addresses but it's not going to help you any further.
Or you would have to get the Government involved so that they will confiscate the user database and conveniently hand it over to you
I personally don't think the second one is an option, so happy hacking
However, sometimes you can identify addresses by their exchange if they use a prefix.
For example like this:
Code:
"3BMEXqGpG4FxBA1KWhRFufXfSTRgzfDBhJ",
"3BMEXKjhrEtLUaBHMbowXuFfyRzo832dU9",
"3BMEXxSMT2b2kvsnC4Q35d2kKJZ4u9bSLh",
"3BMEXqkYPg7Kf3CTTpedfZZsGjrGCJ38T2",
"3BMEXMEvNLdpvoJLCHrCSJ8eiV4GRv76Tu",
"3BMEXaw5X8EScdxZZJNLaM9ZHXAzfwZhDp",
"3BMEXBcaWfTHsA5f53vM2CRBi33G57C6PR",
"3BMEXKjhrEtLUaBHMbowXuFfyRzo832dU9",
"3BMEXxSMT2b2kvsnC4Q35d2kKJZ4u9bSLh",
"3BMEXqkYPg7Kf3CTTpedfZZsGjrGCJ38T2",
"3BMEXMEvNLdpvoJLCHrCSJ8eiV4GRv76Tu",
"3BMEXaw5X8EScdxZZJNLaM9ZHXAzfwZhDp",
"3BMEXBcaWfTHsA5f53vM2CRBi33G57C6PR",
These are exchange addresses but it's not going to help you any further.
so IF I identify that from which exchange I had bought this BTC and they are still in that wallet address, I can connect them with my only email which I been using since years to request them to allow me access the wallet.
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