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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by throwaway2048 on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:15PM (#30959844)
that doesn't help because all transfers to/from said wallet are public.
Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by yebyen on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:20PM (#30959916)
ETH is a public ledger. If you publish your address and put your own name on it, any transfers to or from that address will be associated with your public name. This is not something that can be solved.

At least not in ETH itself; even privacy coins like ZEC may have a way to make your identity public and make your history transparent – and it works as designed when you do this, your transactions are public. (In this sense, neither does using a mixer really help at all. It would just show that you've received some money and sent it to a mixer as yourself, if the mixer is also a public known entity.)

I suppose one way to solve this, is to tell people to look up your ENS name, and then sign a message and share it with them – to present them securely with an address that they can use and verify that it belongs to you, only that it won't be tied to your original identity, except by that message (which you'd have to trust them not to share as well.)

Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by Tenoke on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:23PM (#30959961)
Of course it helps, I can just send some money from Binance to a new address and nobody except for them will know it's connected to me. Alternatively I can bridge them through a less traceble network like SCRT if I don't want even an exchange to know about it.