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One StackExchange answer mentioned bitmessages can be traced, another said it is fully anonymous. The second link seems to cite Wikipedia but a user points out that this anonymous concept doesn't exist in the whitepaper.

My concept is that you could have a tremendous number of bitmessage clients that track the IP address of every client that sends you a message. You keep a log of the IP address and the messages it sent. It seems like you could make a bet of fairly high accuracy whether a client is originating new messages when it's repeatedly the first source of a message you have not seen before.

Is there some aspect of the bitmessage protocol that makes this impossible?

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Vayeate
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  • I just read that anonymous P2P is also exists, the same question could be applied to that I would guess. – Vayeate Dec 28 '15 at 18:16

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PyBitmessage has random forwarding delays, so you won't necessarily receive a message first from the node it originates on. You can increase your anonymity by using a passive node (not accepting connections), and/or by using Tor. Of course, we're trying to improve anonymity even for the rest of the cases.

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