Anonymous Alone? Measuring Bitcoin's Second-Generation Anonymization Techniques
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This paper contributes a systematic account of transaction anonymization techniques that do not require trust in a single entity and support the existing cryptographic currency Bitcoin. It surveys and compares four known techniques, proposes tailored metrics to identify the use of each technique (but not necessarily its users), and presents longitudinal measurements indicating adoption trends and teething troubles. There is a tradeoff between the choice of users’ preferred protection mechanisms and the risk that pertaining transactions can be singled out, which hurts privacy due to smaller anonymity sets unless a critical mass adopts the mechanism.
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