There are other issues besides IP address anonymization that would need to be addressed. I'm sure at least a good number of you have read http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524 and have seen Dan Kaminsky's slideshows.
i.e. all fund aggregations (transactions with multiple inputs using different public keys) make it easy to associate all the public keys to a single entity. Large movements of bitcoin to addresses that haven't been seen before are often interesting events. Then you can correlate transactions with trades on exchanges or with other data sources for time and amount. However, going back to what had been said earlier, the bitcoin protocol itself is not really designed to address these issues. It is designed with the goal of rapidly propagating transactions over a network and getting a bunch of peers to be able to independently verify that they occurred in a particular order and that the signatures are valid. The subject of how to anonymize cryptocurrencies is a separate one, IMHO...and one which needs to address not only how to hide the identity of those who relay transactions but also how to organize and manipulate wallets as to thwart attempts at block chain analysis. And these topics, although interesting in and of themselves, was not what this thread was intended to address. This thread was intended to address the issue of extending the protocol to allow for independently running thin or specialized services that can all interface via the bitcoin protocol without requiring one to step outside the protocol with special gateway access. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
