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I am analysing some BTC transactions for academic purposes.
As part of that work, I would like to identify users with several accounts and regroup them under a single identifier.
I have assumed that when a transaction has several accounts paying in, it is likely that it is the same person using several accounts.
Is this assumption correct or could there be other reasons for having several accounts paying into the same transaction.
1A UTXO really has just one address, but that could be a multisig address that requires signatures from multiple keys. – Pieter Wuille – 2016-07-07T14:58:03.623