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by elux 4593 days ago
See "Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph”,

a 2012 paper by Ron and Shamir. (Adi Shamir of “RSA".)

Preprint available here: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf

(The "Rich List” seems obviously inspired by this paper.)
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nullc 4593 days ago
The original Bitcoin "Rich List" predates that paper by years.

Sadly that paper is pretty poor. It's adequate for informing someone bitcoin isn't anonymous though— but the bitcoin.org website also does that without being littered with basic misunderstandings of how Bitcoin works.

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