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RE: How anonymous is Bitcoin? - Oni - 11-16-2019
If you're using a wallet like Coinbase or Blockchain, it's pretty much assumed they have logs of your IP, as well as purchases/transactions. You should also worry about your ISP, VPN, or network administrator.
RE: How anonymous is Bitcoin? - dcybergeek - 11-16-2019
No, it's not.
There are ways to make it anonymous-ish, but that wasn't the main design goal. The goal was to solve the double-spend problem without a central agency.
It has less to do with public/private keys, and more to do with the fact that all transactions are public record on the blockchain. It makes it pretty easy to turn up during a forensic accounting audit.