Extracting knowledge from cryptocurrencies
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A software prototype from 2012 master's thesis parses the public Bitcoin ledger to cluster addresses, link transactions to exchanges and identify probable real‑world owners; the tool (Bitiodine) helped trace Silk Road funds and assist law enforcement by following coins to cash‑out points. Bitcoin is pseudonymous not anonymous, so results are useful but probabilistic rather than certain, and newer privacy coins use advanced cryptography to defeat these deanonymization techniques.
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