When you broadcast a Monero transaction, the recipient is hidden by ring signatures, the amount is hidden by RingCT, and the address is hidden by stealth addresses. That still leaves one thread hanging: where the transaction first appeared on the network. Anyone watching can see the IP address that first announced a transaction, and if..
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