Samourai Wallet

Bitcoin Privacy Series #4 - Largest Output Amount 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 4 explores the Largest Output Amount heuristic and demonstrates how to track an entity across a series of transaction on the blockchain by applying this heuristic

Blockcypher block explorer:
https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/

OXT:
https://oxt.me/

TXID of the transaction looked at in this video:
d5b07f5b0ef48591ed2a917801d8235188b79048d3eed6e395dddb5d06b5cb63