[g4m8i7]

All of you asking for the transaction ID are incorrigible. The man clearly wants privacy. The kind of privacy that you all opine for every time there's some governmental incursion. Or some startup gets hacked or whatever.

Leave the man be.

[rayiner]

If the man wanted privacy, he shouldn't have designed a system that broadcasts every transaction you make out onto the entire internet.

[lucb1e]

Well we haven't exactly found him through this information yet, but disclosing it after the news of earlier today I think is unethical.

[judk]

Please stop repeating all over HN the ridiculous claim that just because something is visible (with enough work to dig through layers of cloaking) then we conclude that its owner wants it to be seen.

It isn't true for government surveillance of our mail and it isn't true with Bitcoin.

[chm]

And well all know that 1-1 = 1. You're confusing concepts here.