Searching your Bitcoin wallet can put your IP address in Chainalysis’ hands

- Chainalysis is turning your privacy into a meat wallet. Searching your own Bitcoin address on WalletExplorer logs your IP, which they happily share with law enforcement. It’s not a bug; it’s the surveillance state’s favorite hobby. Other explorers like mempool.space and Etherscan have different retention policies, but if you’re paranoid enough to care about off-chain metadata, stop using public tools that sell your data. You think you’re checking your stack-eye balance? You’re just handing over your hash manifest to the feds. Stay anonymous or stay broke.