anonymity in bitcoin
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Class 19:Anonymity in
Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency Cabalcs4501 Fall 2015
David Evans and Samee ZahurUniversity of Virginia
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What is anonymity?anonymous
pseudonymous
unlinkable
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Unlinkability of Bitcoin Transactions
If Alice conducts two bitcoin transactions using different bitcoin addresses (“pseudonyms”), how hard is it for those transactions to be linked?
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Linking Transactionshttps://blockchain.info/tx/0197dabc3c31c8221b5d7883a9d03240bcf7a3042e1bf6dcc26c8d3aa60c58ab
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Confounding Transaction Tracers
"CoinJoinExample" by MARIODOESBREAKFAST - Image drawn for CoinJoin article. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CoinJoinExample.svg#/media/File:CoinJoinExample.svg
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Mixers
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Mixer Design
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Silk Road
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Illegal drugs are illegal and can rot your brain and destroy your (and others) lives!
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This is current!https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossulbricht
My goal during this period of my life was simply to expand the frontier of human knowledge.
Now, my goals have shifted. I want to use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion and agression amongst mankind. … To that end, I am creating an economic simulation to give people a first-hand experience of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of force.
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Silk Road Transactions
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Threats to Validity
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Communication Privacy
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USENIX Security 2004
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Onion Routing
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