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October 21, 2020, 01:58:04 AM
Merited by johhnyUA (1)
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I am not trolling you, but discussion about location would be unhealthy for DT members. ..
Yes, near to 2,000,000 (BTT users) /divided by 200 (countries),  That is about 10,000 BTT user per country  ;D  ;D

This forum does not have anywhere even close to two million active real-life individual users.  Many accounts are inactive, and/or are alts (especially from large-magnitude spammer alt farms).

Whatever the number of active individual users may be, it cannot be evenly divided between every country on Earth.  I would expect that the numeric majority of users are probably from the United States.  If you live in a small country with very few Bitcoin users, then you could practically dox yourself just by saying where you are.

And even ten thousand is way too small an anonymity set for some—especially because other leaked bits of information can further partition that set into smaller and smaller pieces.  For example, if you disclose whether you are male or female, leak any significant information about your age, etc., etc.

Some people choose to disclose various bits of information.  But you should always be aware of how each piece of information that you disclose forms another partition of your anonymity set, which overlaps with the other partitions in a Venn Diagram.  That is called an intersection attack.  If you disclose too much information, an investigator (or a cyberstalker) can keep intersecting these sets to whittle down the possibilities until your anonymity set converges on 1 member, i.e. you.

For opsec, if you value your privacy, you need to learn to think about this in rigorous terms.

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