Account name privacy?

Question

Are accounts linked? My understanding is you need an account to create a new account.

So suppose you have main account ABC and then you create a new account SupportPoliticalCandidate:

1. Will it be public information that ABC created SupportPoliticalCandidate?
2. If you create another account, YourName, will it be public information that YourName and SupportPoliticalCandidate are related?

Answer 1

1. Will it be public information that ABC created SupportPoliticalCandidate?

yes, every transaction has an id named tranaction id, by query the id, everyone can know what happened.

2. If you create another account, YourName, will it be public information that YourName and SupportPoliticalCandidate are related?

yes and no. You can use cleos get servants ABC get created accounts by ABC, but each of them are not related. for example:

$cleos get servants abc
{
  "controlled_accounts": [
       "SupportPoliticalCandidate",
       "YourName"
   ]
}

A bit more: account should be <= 12 characters of 1-5, a-z for now, uppercase letter are not allowed.

Answer 2

One way for anonymity would be to use an independant account creation service like the one I created: https://eos-account-creator.com/

The accounts by eos account creator are all created by the parent account "accountcreat" and there would be no link to your policitcal candidate :)