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Pseudonymity (Not Anonymity)

privacy.pseudonymity

Bitcoin is pseudonymous, not anonymous: addresses are public identifiers that can be linked to real identities through behavior, counterparties, and metadata. Privacy requires active operational practices rather than default assumptions.

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Curated resources (3)

• Pseudonymity (article) Conceptual baseline distinguishing pseudonymity from anonymity.
• Lopp: Bitcoin Privacy (article) Practical privacy failures and defensive techniques for Bitcoin users.
• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Output Linking (article) How transaction graph patterns deanonymize pseudonymous activity.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Addresses and Outputs

Direct dependents (1)

• Address Reuse

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