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wmf
on June 9, 2016
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On Fungibility, Bitcoin, Monero and why ZCash is a...
No, but there are third-party databases that try to track the first IP seen for each transaction.
grondilu
on June 9, 2016
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Well you could do that with any packet on the network, couldn't you? It's not specific to bitcoin. The transaction itself has no IP either.
wmf
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P2P protocols like BitTorrent and Bitcoin are less private than client-server protocols. A random grad student in the Netherlands could track nearly every Bitcoin peer if they wanted to, but they can't track people posting to HN.
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