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How to Trace Bitcoin Addresses
A researcher at the University of California, San Diego has been able to trace Bitcoin accounts. Sarah Mikkeljohn developed techniques to cluster these addresses in a way that shows they belong to one person or service. To spend bitcoins from an address, you've got to control the private key for that address. If you're sending bitcoins in one transaction from lots of addresses, you must control the keys for all those addresses.