[Lazamataz]

While bitcoin does not have a mechanism to tie a wallet to an owner, every single transaction related to every bitcoin wallet is public by definition since it is part of the shared ledger and is absolutely essential to mining coins.

This is correct.

So much like the using phone call metadata to track someone down without actually listening to the calls, metadata derived from each wallet could be used to tie a wallet to a person.

This is incorrect. Please allow me to offer a correction:

So much like the using phone call metadata to track someone a phone down without actually listening to the calls, metadata derived from each wallet could be used to tie a wallet to a person. transactions to a wallet.

You're welcome.

[SecondAmendment]

> This is incorrect. Please allow me to offer a correction:

But would you hit it ? :)