On itself interesting confirmation......but that these breaking insights had to come out of the university of Luxemburg came with this....find it hard to believe
A new report by the University of Luxemburg has emerged, saying researchers have “proven” that Bitcoin transactions can be linked to specific IP addresses and user identities traced. The document, published following the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Computer and Communications Security earlier this month, includes details of experiments carried out to demonstrate the susceptibility of the Bitcoin network to security breaches. In addition, it is alleged that using services such as Tor is insufficient to prevent identity tracking. “Our techniques work for the most common and the most challenging scenario when users are behind NATs or firewalls of their ISPs,” the report states. “They allow to link transactions of a user behind a NAT and to distinguish connections and transactions of different users behind the same NAT.....”