Samourai Wallet

Bitcoin Privacy Series #6 - Script Type Heuristic

The Bitcoin Privacy Series is designed to explain fundamental bitcoin concepts to a completely new user with no prior understanding of bitcoin transaction composition. By the end of the series you will have an understand...

2022-04-22

Episode notes

The Bitcoin Privacy Series is designed to explain fundamental bitcoin concepts to a completely new user with no prior understanding of bitcoin transaction composition. By the end of the series you will have an understanding of basic privacy best practices when using Bitcoin.

Episode 6 explores the Script Type heuristic and demonstrates how to track an entity across a series of transactions on the blockchain by applying this heuristic

TXID of the first example:
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TXID of the second example:
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