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Questions tagged [taint-analysis]

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What are tainted coins exactly?

I've come across the term of a tainted coin several times now. I understand that coins, or better, the origin of a coin can be traced throughout the blockchain. I've read that bitcoins can be disassociated from an address, by sending it to a…
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Can miners reject transactions from an address?

It is alleged that the stolen Bitstamp coins are in this address. In theory, could miners agree to reject all transactions from this address? And if so, would all miners need to agree or just more than half?
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Where can I find research on wallet fingerprinting?

@raw_avocado asks on Twitter: I remember reading at some point something about how you can identify transactions made by specific wallets because they have a specific fingerprint because of how they construct transactions. Are there any public…
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Procedure for calculating taint?

I'd like to understand taint analysis quantitatively. Blockchain.info offers a service that will calculate taint, but I've found no good explanation for how taint is calculated. The best (and only) explanation I've found so far appears in the paper…
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Tainting with HD wallets

I'm having trouble understanding HD wallet privacy... for one thing, what if I want to send more money than I have in any of my individual derived addresses? Then I would have to use more than one, right? Which would compromise privacy, because it…
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What is taint analysis?

I just came across the term "taint analysis" in a crypto-related conversation. This came up while discussing "tracking bitcoin transactions" so it's somehow related to that. That's all I know.
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Is it possible to reject a bitcoin payment?

Say someone sends bitcoin to an address. It is later determined that those incoming funds are tainted and the recipient wants no association. What is their recourse?
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Why should I use a Bitcoin Mixer?

I understand that I can use Bitcoin anonymously using Bitcoin Core with Tor running a full node or with Electrum using Tor running an SPV node, why should I also use a Bitcoin Mixer?
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What are the advantages/disadvantages to using the same Wallet Address?

I'm very curious about the reasons people keep their wallet addresses private. I don't understand, some people just post them publicly and nothing bad ever seems to happen. I am involved with a project that uses randomly generated new wallet…
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What are "tagged" Bitcoins?

I was reading about the Sheep Marketplace: Victims of the theft have attempted to identify the thief by sending "tagged" bitcoins to his accounts, using the public nature of bitcoin transactions to follow these moneys through the "blockchain"…
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Is it possible for a country to control Bitcoin usage?

Imagine that I run a country named "MyAwesomeCountry". I accept Bitcoin as a currency that can be legally used to buy things and also pay taxes. Then I say that there are some bad guys (let's name them "errorists") and say that if that known that…
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Reverse wheresgeorge.com for BTCs

Say I give 1 BTC to Alice who gives it to Bob who gives it to Carol. Can I now figure out that my original BTC is now with Carol? Of course, by Carol I mean an anonymous address. I'm thinking of a reverse wheresgeorge.com where I can trace where a…
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"Dirty" Bitcoins/Find Bitcoin origins?

I know that it's possible to sort through the blockchain history for your bitcoins, however it is difficult to trace back your coins to when they were originally mined due to bitcoin mixers. Is it possible to create a tool that will give a complete…
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Multi input transaction heuristic

I was revising for my upcoming exam and came across this slide, which I don't completely understand as I find it a bit confusing. Can someone please explain what the lecturer was trying to point out? I'm still new to the whole topic and I appreciate…
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What prevents someone from tainting the coin tumbling pool of the Wasabi wallet?

Wasabi is a new type of wallet with a built in tumbler if I'm correct. What stops someone from tainting the tumbling pool of coins with non-approved coins? I'm weary of using these privacy tools as I don't want my coinbase account frozen just…
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