Quote from: woahmang on November 29, 2012, 12:40 amQuality post SelfSovereignty.Quote from: SelfSovereignty on November 28, 2012, 11:04 pmI'll say this though: for some reason, even though I do sometimes run the client software myself, I've never had my IP show up in the blockchain (and I don't always go through Tor). I like Bitcoins for their own sake. Anyway, for some reason I've never been the one first reporting a transaction, which makes no sense to me at all... because if I don't report it first, then who the fuck could -- I'm the one who sent the damn things. That makes little sense to me, so my understanding is obviously flawed somewhere or other. I'm happy to be schooled if anybody wants to spare the time :)Sure, the way that your IP ends up in blockchain.info is because they have a shipload of nodes on the network so they get all the latest transactions as soon as possible, if you happen to be connected to one of them then your IP gets put up there as the "originator". If you're not connected you can bet one of your peers is, so as far as blockchain know the peer who sent it to them is the originator instead. In theory the FBI could have a ton of nodes on the network making their own lists of originators, saving the logs up so they can make future correlations between IPs, addresses and sacks of flesh and blood.What's more likely is some private mercenaries have their own nodes set up to spy on as much of the network as possible, this way they can sell their highly expensive services and intellectual property to the law at a later date. Now if I was a PhD-level statistician looking for a way to sell consultancy services to someone for a grand a day, you can bet that I'd have a ton of nodes out there logging and I'd be scraping blockchain for extra info and cross-referencing them with TOR exit node IPs. So it's safe to assume someone is and that they're your enemy.A beautiful bit of logic there that I had completely, totally overlooked. Thank you sincerely for both the clever insight and helping me better arm myself against just such a person :)I can't give you any advice about mixing or I would, so I'll leave that to others who know more.