The Bitcoin Block Explorer: Your Bitcoin Payments are NOT Anonymous, Every Transaction is Public

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A site that lets you view detailed information about Bitcoin blocks, addresses, and transactions. This data is all gotten from the block chain. It has always been possible to get this data, but you had to patch Bitcoin with getblock or use the clunky -printblock switch in Bitcoin, and then you had to search through miles of data to get what you wanted. Now everything is available in a clickable and easily-searchable format. One of my main motivations for creating it was to inform people of the exact limitations of Bitcoin’s anonymity — it’s possible to remain anonymous, but only if you’re careful.

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