Well with Bitcoin anyone can trace you with proper chain analysis tools. This chain analysis industry is getting bigger now a days.

There is this common misconception that bitcoin is anonymous but actually it is not. It is pseudonymous. When you are doing KYC with exchanges and sending coins there and withdrawing from there, the exchanges or any other companies knows your addresses and using those addresses they can figure out which one is yours.

And also when you are broadcasting a tx if you are not using VPN then whoever is controlling the server they can have your IP location.


So, over all you are actually anonymous.

I just wanted to confirm your toughts... Ip's are not stored in the blockchain... If you create a transaction and initially broadcast it to one or more nodes, these nodes could theoretically store your ip. However, these nodes simply do not know if you broadcasted a new transaction, or just rebroadcast a transaction you yourself received from somebody else.
It's a little different for SPV wallets, for example electrum. Theoretically, an SPV wallet does not rebroadcast transactions. So if an electrum wallet user is connected to an electrum node and sends a new tx to this node, the node operator could potentially store the ip together with the tx, so he'll be able to identify you (that's where tor might come in handy)

That's true, untill you decide to spend those unspent outputs. If you spend multiple unspent outputs funding several addresses, everybody will be able to link those addresses together. And with some clever analysis of the receiving address, the amount of outputs (change),... one could potentially start to trace you (like you said before, as soon as you filled in KYC info for a service and somebody is able to link you to this service, you are no longer anonymous).

A big exception to all this is the people that were ignorant enough to use a web wallet, exchange wallet, casino wallet. Next to making their clients vulnerable to loads of other attack vectors, the online wallet operator could link every address to a user.

Transaction are traceable thru Blockchain Record as well when they know your address like in etherscan, the transaction are traceable not your IP r you personally. Unless you're using a local wallet that you do KYC or connect your social media account like one application here in our country then it can really trace you. Just know infos you filled up in that exchange or wallet since some saves your info.

I agree with the links in the comments above, or if you are using exchanges like OKEX, you can check your transaction records.

if they know your bitcoin address it will certainly be easy to trace, for those who are familiar with internet technology maybe they can also track your ip, You can change your bitcoin address, for ip problems you can use a trusted VPN, or use a browser, software or application that has anonymous features.

Transactions are traceable, but I don't think that it includes tracing the IP address of the user. Blockchain does not hold or a tool to trace the IP address of whoever did the transaction. Even without using VPN, tracing your location is not possible, unless you reveal it yourself.

I know for a fact that Monero transactions cannot be traced due to its high anonymity a main reason why why people tend to prefer it over other cryptos and with Bitcoins I believe that it's very much traceable that's why people tend to use the bitcoin mixing services that are being offered a lot in the forum.

For you to figure out the ip address of a person, you need to track first the transaction and make a communication to the particular person that you want to trace. For example, knowing his/her transaction numbers on the blockchain records provides hint on their wallet address in the market. In that case, you can search the name of the user and make a personal message contact with him. There are some sites, which provides the services that you can send a link to them and once the user click that link, their ip will be trace.

You can use this: https://iplogger.org/

Your transactions are stored in the system. It can be checked from there so it is kind of traceable. But if you use VPN when you are making a new transaction, I don't think that they can find the location of your transaction.

Using a bitcoin mixer is another way to hide even transactions, it is an additional tool to hide every track of your transactions.
but yes, if you totally wanted to hide not only your location, identity, IP address and if it includes transaction blocks, then bitcoin mixer is actually the answer to these problems.