Topic: Is Bitcoin Anonymous Enough For You? - page 11. (Read 7636 times)

Well, it's not nearly as anonymous as hard cash, literally everything you do using Bitcoin leaves a permanent mark in the system and can be tracked. Right now it's not too bad, we don't have to have our real identities associated with our addresses/wallets and transactions but I'm fairly certain that if Bitcoin goes mainstream the government will require some form of ID verification from everyone using it. Anonymity is not really a big deal for me though, I'm happy with Bitcoin the way it is 

Bitcoin is not anonymous enough. We see all those threads all the time about people speculating on amounts of money being moved, this is annoying for the person moving the money, I wouldn't like to see people speculating about transactions and trying to trace them somewhere.

We need to get rid of that with confidential transactions and by-default Coinjoined transactions, then we will solve the fungibility problem.

Bitcoin is more than anonymous enough for me, partially because I don't do much stuff on the dark web and also because I don't intend on doing anything criminal. Having a fairly random alpha-numeric series associated with my name is fine by me.

As for a number of other people though, I think they'd want more secure options.

It is enough for me do I know that I am doing nothing bad with Bitcoin so I am good with the way it is. I am only here to try and make some money and that is it.

Personally, for me bitcoin is anonymous. Bitcoin is better to secure my various data and transaction history. That's one reason for me to use and choose bitcoin to become my personal currency.Maybe some people are sure if bitcoin better to secure their privacy.

Yes, I think bitcoin anonymous for some people, to another people have different thinking

thanks for the correction... It's really warm in the office and i'm getting a bit sleepy. I couldn't remember the correct terminology .


Well, i'm not talking about a normal guy tracking you down. I'm actually thinking in the lines of law enforcement.

I might be paranoid, but I think that, for example, interpol working together with local law enforcement would have a pretty good shot of tracking down somebody if they had enough knowledge to do this.
They could follow the trace of inputs/outputs and ask a judge to order the biggest exchanges/shops/online wallets to reveil their full logs (addresses, exchange logs, identifying info, ip's,...), they could potentially track somebody down.

This is just me being paranoid tough, i'm not doing anything wrong myself, but i strongly believe somebody with enough power (legally) and recources would be able to track somebody down unless they used tricks (like mixers over VPN).

I could be wrong tough, i have no experience using BTC for illegal purposes, so i never had to hide my tracks. I personally believe that when you use bitcoin for legal purposes, you will never be interesting enough for people to actually want to track your movements.

Yes, I want bitcoin is anonymous

yes, I think so too. anonymous or not is not important, because I only see bitcoin as a business is very promising and reliable. I guess that makes me love bitcoin and unconcerned with others

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Being anonymous was never the design of crypto

being a non printable asset is

As a general user bitcoin is enough anonymous for me, I am not using it for any kind of activity that needs to be hidden.I am using it as a fast and easy way to low payment transfer fees without any headache and bitcoin is perfect for my needs.

Yes, the pseudo-anonymous nature of Bitcoin is enough for me. It is the perfect equilibrium between having enough privacy in my personal spending and having a transparent address where it can be seen how much and when did I receive funds.

Anonymity is not a problem for me and not something that attracts me, there is more about the opportunity to make money that make me like Bitcoins.

Your answers are very interesting, please keep them coming. I'm reading every single comment of you guys. Detailed and elaborated answers are particularly interesting. Also thanks to Lauda for correcting some mistakes.

Tracing random numbers (e.g. amounts) or addresses won't do you any good.

Not really, no.

The term that is usually used is 'pseudo-anonymous', but your statement holds. Honestly, what did people expect? Completely anonymous coins are most likely never going to be available on regulated exchanges.

Coupled by who? The only people that could potentially do that are the ones to which you've given your personal information to (e.g. exchanges). For everyone else, you are anonymous.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Stop using online wallets already.

For me, bitcoin is not anonymous at all.. Every bitcoin wallets I used they asked me my email and some of them asked my phone number too (xapo).. then how we could say that bitcoin is anonymous.
every exchanging and trading sites also require these basic and personal information for verification process,. and now there are available lots of bitcoin credit/debit cards, which require your country, city and home address, these makes this even worst.
bitcoin is totally not anonymous now..

As far as I still can use for transaction, it doesn't matter whenever it anonymous or not as long as I use bitcoin for good reason.
But for some reason, my goverment forbid bitcoin usage because it's anonymous. I do not find a great answer why they forbid them instead it can be use for investation

it's anonymous enough for me. even more if you're going to count the many trusted services that can assist in making your bitcoins untraceable.

but I'm not into bitcoin because of the anonymity so my standard might be a little lower than those who are.

AFAIK, it's actually pretty hard to find the ip of the one creating outputs, even without VPN. Your ip address isn't included in the tx, so it's allmost impossible for somebody to find the ip of the pc that was running a wallet and broadcasted a tx. the ip shown at, for example, blockchain.info is usually not the ip of the one broadcasting a transaction.
The reason for using a VPN (afaik) is to avoid services that generate deposit addresses, or other services that actually need to know your address logging your ip together with your address.

For example: if you create an account on a gambling site, they generate a unique deposit address for you and you deposit coins from an address you wish to keep private to this deposit address
=> without using a VPN, the gambling site knows your ip, and could potentially look up which input were used to generate an output to the deposit address coupled to this ip. This way, you can be traced. When using a VPN you avoid this problem.

second example: blockchain.info might actually log in their access.log both your ip and the bitcoin address you're checking. If the feds would analyse their logs, they could easily see which ip checked the saldo of which address at which time. This is also something you could avoid using a VPN

Yes i find my bitcoin wallet anonymous. I can donate without knowing thats me,. But you can be located by the professional hackers , But still its anonymous for me