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If it is not possible to link X and Y, how do bitcoin network recognize Y as a valid address with bitcoins, if there is no history of bitcoins arriving to the a

• tempestn 13y ago
  Presumably as well as facilitating this transaction with you A->X...Y->B they are also facilitating this with someone else: C->Y...X->D (In reality they would probably have many addresses and not just orchestrate simple pairs like that, but the idea is that the transactions balance out.) So they only need to seed each address with a bit of initial capital, then balance out the transactions.