Although bitcoin is naturally pseudonymous, it is very easy to leak personal financial information. A strategy to increase privacy is to never merge two outputs together. Instead, when sending a payment, send to many different addresses instead. This is called "merge avoidance". To my knowledge, this concept was first introduced by Justus Ranvier:
Although bitcoin is naturally pseudonymous, it is very easy to leak personal financial information. A strategy to increase privacy is to never merge two outputs together. Instead, when sending a payment, send to many different addresses instead. This is called "merge avoidance". To my knowledge, this concept was first introduced by Justus Ranvier:
http://bitcoinism.blogspot.com/2013/07/reclaiming-financial-privacy-with-hd.html
And named by Mike Hearn:
https://medium.com/p/7f95a386692f