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by michaelt 4957 days ago
If there's 1000 wallets that only transact with each other and never (or rarely) with other wallets, it might be possible to identify them as an island in the transaction graph - see [1] for an example of automatic graph clustering (I think the image is communities in facebook's social graph, but the same algorithm could be applied to a transaction graph)

Of course, whether that behavior would stand out depends on how other users of the system behave.

[1] http://www.ece.umd.edu/~wenjunlu/images/gephi.png

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You will probably find many of these islands even right now.

Plus, I can divide my 1000 wallets into 20 islands, and only have 1-2 transactions between the islands.