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Re:68% of total Ethereum transaction value controlled by one... by shawabawa3 on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @05:10AM (#15337234)
The address is used to identify you.

Deposit addresses aren't shared across accounts. The re-shuffling of the coins is for the exchanges security and accounting

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Re:68% of total Ethereum transaction value controlled by one... by homakov on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:17AM (#15337682)
> The re-shuffling of the coins is for the exchanges security and accounting

Neither requires re-shuffling. It's just for convenience and what be even more convenient if every blockchain tx included who they are trying to deposit to providing inputdata even for regular transfers. Like a tag, "these 10 eth for personal_Hash=abc123"

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Re:68% of total Ethereum transaction value controlled by one... by dahdum on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:38PM (#15341422)
Actually that would put the onus on the sender to include extra pieces of data, and the exchanges would have to deal with errors from people who send without the hash.

So I'm pretty certain even if it were supported, individual addresses would still be the better choice due to ease of use.

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