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Chain Analysis Heuristics

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Common heuristics used to cluster addresses and infer ownership from on-chain behavior.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Output Linking (article) How transaction patterns can leak relationship signals.
• Bitcoin Design: Coin Selection (article) Wallet behavior choices that impact privacy.
• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Coin Selection (article) How wallet input selection patterns influence clustering and linkability.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Address Reuse

Direct dependents (6)

• Amount Correlation
• Change Output Detection
• Common-Input Ownership Heuristic
• Fungibility
• PayJoin (P2EP)
• UTXO Consolidation Tradeoffs

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