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AtheistCrusader

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17. That's a really good point. The anonymity is only as deep as the owner of the wallet.

Reply to eggplant (Reply #15)

Tue Feb 6, 2018, 03:18 PM

Feb 2018

Once the wallet owner is known, their entire transaction history is known.

In your latter scenario, someone that was party to the transaction has to sing, to figure it out.

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