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Naïve question here: since wallet addresses are fixed, couldn't you detect transaction activity unusually repetitive between a few wallets? Couldn't some clev
by mancerayder 9y ago
Naïve question here: since wallet addresses are fixed, couldn't you detect transaction activity unusually repetitive between a few wallets? Couldn't some clever learning algo detect anomalies such as what you hypothesized could be going on?
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y agoProbably. Could be an interesting data science project. One thing I'm not sure about is how easy it is to make new wallet addresses. Do you know?
- teraflop 9y agoA Bitcoin address is just the hash of a public key, so generating new addresses is extremely cheap (on the order of microseconds) and doesn't require interacting with the blockchain at all.