Can someone find out that you own bitcoin ?

[stayeduptolate]

I was following a thread and was amused by some of the answers. I'm interested to see how much people know.

Though it is very difficult for someone that you are using a bitcoin or not because bitcoin is very anonymous and it strongly believes in users satisfaction, it’s oeer to peer transactions enables customers to have very safe and confidential transactions but as we all know that nothing is impossible in this digital world, almost every thing is cracable , the all you need is to be little more careful with your every transaction and most importantly you should be very careful with your keys.

[atamat]

If you want, you can quickly and easily identify the user of bitcoin. First of all, you will be given an increased interest in the topic of bitcoin, communication on forums and social networks.

[pixie85]

If you want, you can quickly and easily identify the user of bitcoin. First of all, you will be given an increased interest in the topic of bitcoin, communication on forums and social networks.

And how would you link a forum account to a bitcoin holder? There are ways to mask your IP and people rarely register email accounts with their real names and addresses.
Even if you get the real name or IP of the forum user there's no certainty that he will be a Bitcoin holder.

[jcemos9bt]

Nobody will know if you own bitcoin unless you give them your private key of wallet address, but will should not undermined the power any government.
Government can know if you own a bitcoin, some responsible country have what we called citizens database meaning anything you do or register for is being recorded some countries even go as far to monitor their internet users activities via their network ip address so they can recall track anything website you have visited even your calls they do this to protect their country.

[mekie]

Absolutely, IF they feel the need to, for example if you are using them for illegal purposes; and remember they have effectively limitless resources at their disposal. Think GCHQ, Homeland security/CIA etc   

[Ethan Argu]

Goverment can trace if you have a bitcoin unless if you revealed you give the wallet address they can trace you. The important is you need to be secretly if you have bitcoin because it takes you in a risk especially if you are country that totally banned bitcoin be careful to hide your identity because nowadays their are many hackers can trace you and some are are work by goverment to trace illegal activities in a website. Be careful always.

[James Fleming]

Absolutely.  Every transaction is recorded in the blockchain, a public ledger that is shared with every participant in the bitcoin network. 

When you buy bitcoins from an exchange they (or their bank) are supposed to follow know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering protocols to identify you.  Once your initial purchase is linked to your identity, every other transfer of Bitcoins can be traced back to you.

[Cody Blare]

 Bitcoins are only traceable as much as IP addresses are. If you anonymize yourself wrt to the IP addresses,  that particular transaction can't be traced to you.
Of course, there are counterparties involved in any transaction, you would have to make sure that you and your transaction (including the chain of previous transactions) are anonymous wrt to your identity to the counterparty as well. It would be impossible in the general case to be untraceable, but there are many specific cases where you could do truly anonymous transactions, like purchasing and consuming a purely digital service or goods over an anonymous network.
 In short it's more traceable than cash, but much less traceable than traditional payment networks.

[Generaldiscussion]

Everything is anonymous in Crypto market. The safest market is hardware wallet. If you use it, no one can know you own bitcoin. But if you use other wallet or access public internet, your information may be stolen.

[fudster]

The exchanges where you sign up to acquire your BTC would know you have it of course. If you verify and put all your information as they asked for KYC then you're completely good to go as the government needs that. Also if you keep announcing and sharing crypto news in your facebook account then people would assume you have coins.

[Sevarchik]

If you dont say about this no one never know about your bitcoins.
And with this condition you can never use your bitcoins, and when you use your btc some one know about you have btc)) its a circle

[basyang]

I was following a thread and was amused by some of the answers. I'm interested to see how much people know.

Yes. It is possible to find out that you own bitcoin, you can not hide it forever. There are people who are curious about bitcoin so they will find a way to know more about this. They will know if you have bitcoin if you share your thoughts or information of it in social media just like in facebook, twitter or on youtube, and they will notice that you are engage of cryptocurrency when you shared some project on your social media. More over, if they will check your phone you have a different cryptowallet installed on your phone.And as long as you will not tell them how much you earn or how much you had on your wallet they will never know it.

[mornabo]

i think yes if you provide your secret keys but without this no one can see your bitcoin and no one will know that u own bitcoin.
bitcoin is anonymous.

actually there is not any way to know you have bitcoin or not, you're right bitcoin have anonymous nature, so there isn't any identity
that is visible, so anyone won't know which bitcoin address you are and how much bitcoin you have, no one will know that

[libert19]

If you don't brag about having Bitcoin and keep some basic safety measures I don't think anyone will find out.

Basic safety measures: using vpn, anonymous wallets, p2p trades for fiat conversion, anonymous exchanges, secure emails (such as proton mail), disposable phone numbers.

[Gabah56]

if in my opinion it is impossible for someone to know that we have bitcoin or not. unless we tell them. because it can be risky if we show the assets we have to others .

[yj300316]

I was following a thread and was amused by some of the answers. I'm interested to see how much people know.

I think someone cannot know that you own bitcoin unless they know your bitcoin address.
This can be done if you are using exchange require your identity. Just very careful when submitting any kind of information of your identity.

[mersal]

No one can track you that how much money have but anyone can saw your transaction details if they know you address or wallet id,so we will stay anonymous until we don't share our address to anyone.

[Lagunaloire2]

If some can find out that you own bitcoin than bitcoin can not be so popular like that
but it still might have some problem we still not find out,i think  

[koreano111]

It's hopeless because your identity is unrevealed. No one can know that you own bitcoin

[Idowuogbo]

With d little knowledge I av on crypto,  I would say, absolutely it is possibly, but the method depends on who the someone is.. in theory, it's almost always possible. Anyone who visits an exchange and registers their identity, can in theory be tracked easily unless the person uses fake information.