Help : How to identify which walllet it is from the btc address?

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Quote from: karan1498 on October 03, 2017, 02:05:40 PM

Please tell me How to identify which walllet it is from the btc address?

You can find out easily if they are using vanity addresses. Or if you analyze the transactions. That is the only way. Or if they broadcasted that this is the address of such and such like in the case of Mt. Gox. Everybody knew their address because you can see it when you use the blockchain explorer.

https://blockchain.info/address/1LNWw6yCxkUmkhArb2Nf2MPw6vG7u5WG7q

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There is no such device or application to determine what wallet is came the bitcoin address, most bitcoin address had almost the same, me i am using multiple bitcoin address and if i ramble that i can not exactly know which wallet the address came from. Even also in other coin we do not trace which wallet the address generated because if they do transaction it is only bitcoin address show in the transaction and not the wallet.

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There are some whitehate / law enforcement tools that do analysis on the blockchain to ascertain many of the details as above including linking in a gui for further investigations.. anyone got a link Cheesy

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Quote from: karan1498 on October 03, 2017, 02:10:36 PM

We can , One exchange just proved it to me . I sent them numerous address and they told me which wallet/exchange the address belongs to .

They do this to not to send BTC to darknet and blacklisted addresses. So i am being curious that how it works.

They surely checked Walletexplorer https://www.walletexplorer.com something that everyone can do, you just need to enter the BTC address. However, you can find only wallets related to exchanges, web wallets, pools, gambling sites.
But you can't identify a wallet software (unless you find it on the www like for example the owner posted in publicly of course)

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Quote from: karan1498 on October 03, 2017, 02:05:40 PM

Please tell me How to identify which walllet it is from the btc address?

With the wallet address you can check the transaction only that wallet address other than that you will not able to gather any information. For this you can use the blockchain explorer with the search link.
Finding which wallet it belongs too, wallet's owner details or other information will not be published at all.

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Quote from: karan1498 on October 03, 2017, 02:10:36 PM

We can , One exchange just proved it to me . I sent them numerous address and they told me which wallet/exchange the address belongs to .

They do this to not to send BTC to darknet and blacklisted addresses. So i am being curious that how it works.

This doesn't make any sense to me, especially the last part. If some address belongs to an exchange, that is not that hard to find out if you do some data analysis and if you know at least some addresses of that exchange. This info isn't in the address or any particular place on it's own. It is just some research and inside knowledge. As for the wallet software that generated them, I guess there might be wallets that try to generate addresses in a certain recognizable way, but this isn't the case for any popular wallet I know, it is just harder to do so and there is no benefit, in fact it is at the cost of anonymity. It is harder to generate addresses that don't look random and you need to make an effort to do so.

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Quote from: karan1498 on October 03, 2017, 02:10:36 PM

We can , One exchange just proved it to me . I sent them numerous address and they told me which wallet/exchange the address belongs to .

They do this to not to send BTC to darknet and blacklisted addresses. So i am being curious that how it works.

It does not always work and it only works for a select few addresses. Given a random address, it is unlikely that you would be able to identify the wallet that it belongs to.

For some addresses, you may already know who owns the address because the owner has publicly shared that they control it. From there, you can link addresses together if they are inputs to the same transactions. However this method is not foolproof and is easily fooled by things like CoinJoins.

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We can , One exchange just proved it to me . I sent them numerous address and they told me which wallet/exchange the address belongs to .

They do this to not to send BTC to darknet and blacklisted addresses. So i am being curious that how it works.

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You cannot identify what wallet an address is part of nor can you identify which wallet software created an address unless you are the creator of the address.

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Please tell me How to identify which walllet it is from the btc address?

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