John Smith [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-08-05 🗒️ Summary of this message: Re-broadcasting ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-08-05
🗒️ Summary of this message: Re-broadcasting Bitcoin transactions could potentially allow for the identification of both the sender and recipient's IP addresses.
📝 Original message:> 3) The recipient re-broadcasts transactions (is Theymos right here?),
> allowing both the sender and recipient to be found
>

Hm this would potentially allow getting the IP for any recipient Bitcoin
address, given that a client with the private key connects to the network
once in a while.

Send them a transaction that is guaranteed to not be written into a block by
a miner, then monitor who rebroadcasts it over a few days/weeks.

I guess this could also be used to find out who has the stolen coins.

JS
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