This post describes and discusses the behavior of an entity I call LinkingLion. The entity opens connections to many Bitcoin nodes using four IP address ranges and listens to transaction announcements. This might allow the entity to link newly broadcast transactions to node IP addresses. The entity has been active in some capacity since 2018 and is also active on the Monero network using the same IP address ranges. The entity might be a blockchain analysis company collecting data to improve its products.
Chainalysis claims to be able to trace 'some' Monero transactions, and I would bet that some form of IP address linking is about the extent of their capabilities. Bitcoin and Monero are the two currencies on just about every darkweb marketplace. So there's going to be adversarial data collection on both networks. Hard to say who's doing it but I'd put my bet on Chainalysis.
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have already developed an anti-tracking method.
works easy!)))
it doesn't matter who pokes his nose in where...
let them come up with something new) cats and mice)