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Re:Baidu now accepts Bitcoin by clarkm on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @01:38PM (#6554889)
No, using a unique address for every payment is very important! While it may not affect you personally, reusing addresses is very bad for overall network privacy. It makes entity resolution much easier, and breaks the property of profile unlinkability.

You should be treating addresses more like single-use, disposable accounts than longstanding pseudonyms.

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Re:Baidu now accepts Bitcoin by drcode on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @09:40AM (#6559550)
You do make a good point about network privacy. If you don't generate unique addresses, you might discourage your customers from wanting to link their coins to your account (even if they have done nothing wrong, just to avoid second-order effects.)
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Re:Baidu now accepts Bitcoin by fennecfoxen on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @02:48PM (#6555441)
And why does this Baidu subsidiary care about this damage?
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