Shrinking anonymity set argument
coletu-2085521804337008997
- Author
- @ColeTU
- Organisation
- independent
- Evidence role
- social statement
- Posted
- 7 Aug 2026, 00:21 UTC
- Capture status
- capture held
Cole argues that the attack damages bitcoin privacy well beyond the people who lost money: anyone holding a compromised seed can see that wallet's entire transaction history and address set, including for owners who already moved their funds, so surveillance firms can cluster those addresses to single owners, and everyone else is left hiding in a smaller crowd. He puts it as hiding in a room of 1,000 people from which 800 suddenly leave. Held because it states the second-order privacy cost compactly and independently of rawavocado-privacy-impact, which the archive holds making a related argument four days earlier. The same account's on-chain probe is registered at coletu-2085065558333022663. The reasoning is the poster's; no captured source measures the clustering effect he describes, and it is not verified here.
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