user78: Bitcoin transactions are pseudo-anonymous. What can an individual that uses Bitcoin do in order to remain as anonymous as possible?

user318: Download the Tor package with vidalia from http://www.torproject.org/
Run Tor... When it is working, a green onion means your entire network traffic is being anonymized.
Details on how Tor works are at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
Install it... and then in your bitcoin application, under settings, tell it to use a proxy.
The default setting is the correct one.  You could probably disable the option that starts Bitcoin when your computer starts, because you want Tor up and running before Bitcoin.
All of your transactions are recorded in the block chain... mix things up by using available tumblers.  Also... the anonymous markets are displaying text saying they now use tumblers to make tracing where transactions come from and go difficult to analyze/trace.

user153: There is a patch that can be used to let you specify specifically which addresses to use for spending in a transaction.
 - http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/415

user78: 
Use Tor whenever connecting to the Bitcoin network or to exchange sites.
Never publish one of your Bitcoin address publically (e.g. in a signature or blog). If you do, and someone actually sends money to this address, you run the risk of them being able to identify your other addresses and monitoring every transaction your make via Block Explorer.
Any Bitcoins that you want to keep truely anonymous should be managed via a dedicated account, and never linked on the internet to your name. E.g. if you buy some Bitcoin through Mt. Gox, this can theoretically be traced to you by law enforcement agencies if they can correlate the money transfer you made to Mt. Gox with the funds transfer (assuming they get access to Mt. Gox logs).

A simple way to remain truly anonymous is buying bitcoin in exchange for cash (e.g. through Local Bitcoins) and moving them to an address you will only access through Tor.

user4774: 
Don't publicly disclose any address in your wallet, or associate any address with your true identity.
Use currency exchanges to break the 'money trail' of bitcoin addresses associated with you.*
Use anonymizing services such as TOR when conducting business.
Break up your transactions between online and offline (person to person) transactions.
Buy bitcoins for cash.
Mine bitcoins yourself either directly (solo), or with pools such as Eligius that do not require registration.

*If you transfer bitcoins into a large currency exchange or other large private repository of bitcoins, then pay bitcoin back out to a new address that is not associated with you it is difficult (without a warrant) to track the bitcoins.

78: <p>Bitcoin transactions <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/52/how-anonymous-are-bitcoin-transactions/61#61">are pseudo-anonymous</a>. What can an individual that uses Bitcoin do in order to remain as anonymous as possible?</p>
 318: <p>Download the Tor package with vidalia from <a href="http://www.torproject.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.torproject.org/</a></p>

<p>Run Tor... When it is working, a green onion means your entire network traffic is being anonymized.</p>

<p>Details on how Tor works are at: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network</a>)</p>

<p>Install it... and then in your bitcoin application, under settings, tell it to use a proxy.</p>

<p>The default setting is the correct one.  You could probably disable the option that starts Bitcoin when your computer starts, because you want Tor up and running before Bitcoin.</p>

<p>All of your transactions are recorded in the block chain... mix things up by using available tumblers.  Also... the anonymous markets are displaying text saying they now use tumblers to make tracing where transactions come from and go difficult to analyze/trace.</p>
 153: <p>There is a patch that can be used to let you specify specifically which addresses to use for spending in a transaction.
 - <a href="http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/415">http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/415</a></p>
 78: <ol>
<li>Use <a href="http://www.torproject.org/" rel="nofollow">Tor</a> whenever connecting to the Bitcoin network or to exchange sites.</li>
<li>Never publish one of your Bitcoin address publically (e.g. in a signature or blog). If you do, and someone actually sends money to this address, you run the risk of them being able to identify your other addresses and monitoring every transaction your make via <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/" rel="nofollow">Block Explorer</a>.</li>
<li>Any Bitcoins that you want to keep truely anonymous should be managed via a dedicated account, and never linked on the internet to your name. E.g. if you buy some Bitcoin through Mt. Gox, this can theoretically be traced to you by law enforcement agencies if they can correlate the money transfer you made to Mt. Gox with the funds transfer (assuming they get access to Mt. Gox logs).</li>
</ol>

<p>A simple way to remain truly anonymous is buying bitcoin in exchange for cash (e.g. through <a href="https://www.localbitcoins.com/" rel="nofollow">Local Bitcoins</a>) and moving them to an address you will only access through Tor.</p>
 4774: <ol>
<li>Don't publicly disclose any address in your wallet, or associate any address with your true identity.</li>
<li>Use currency exchanges to break the 'money trail' of bitcoin addresses associated with you.*</li>
<li>Use anonymizing services such as TOR when conducting business.</li>
<li>Break up your transactions between online and offline (person to person) transactions.</li>
<li>Buy bitcoins for cash.</li>
<li>Mine bitcoins yourself either directly (solo), or with pools such as <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Eligius">Eligius</a> that do not require registration.</li>
</ol>

<p>*If you transfer bitcoins into a large currency exchange or other large private repository of bitcoins, then pay bitcoin back out to a new address that is not associated with you it is difficult (without a warrant) to track the bitcoins.</p>
