Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from University College Dublin have conducted an analysis of anonymity on Bitcoin, and found it is not inherently anonymous, and that in many cases, users and their transactions can be identified. They use techniques such as context discovery and flow analysis to investigate and visualize an alleged theft of Bitcoins, which, at the time of the theft, had a market value of approximately half a million U.S. dollars."

Re:herp derp

[Asic Eng]

Anyone who spells "liter" as "litre" is a moron.

Or French.

Re:herp derp

[Anonymous Coward]

Except that both spellings are correct.
Litre [wikipedia.org]

Re:Slashdot and Bitcoin

[jandrese]

Are you sure you didn't do a search for bitcoins yourself earlier? Google will remember that. I tried the same autocomplete query just now and only got:

slashdot rss
slashdot effect
slashdot reader
slashdot.org
slashdot wiki

No bitcoin mentions on the first page either.

Re:Slashdot and Bitcoin

[kaizendojo]

I could care less about Bitcoin, and have NEVER searched for it, and my results were identical to the OPs. Just saying.