Can’t we force a user to use a new address for receiving payments? Every time a payment is received display another Bitcoin address in the address bar. (only transactions via Bitcoin addresses, NOT IPs of course, since that’d be useless, right?) The actual key would still be kept to ensure that the user would still receive payments of people sending to the same address. (We wanna minimize “lost” Bitcoins, right?)
This yields a couple of questions:
- Is this technologically possible? (Probably.)
- Is this bad to force it upon users? (Probably.)
- Should we implement such a feature? (I don’t know, I wouldn’t unless we don’t have a choice, better half a defense than none!)
So, are there any alternatives to combat “coin lineage”?