Blind Signatures for Bitcoin Transaction Anonymity
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Bitcoin is [6] a peer-to-peer distributed currency system. Bitcoin attempts to provide anonymity to users by cycling keys [6] however such protection is of limited value. [8] In this paper I present a new means of forming transactions that prevents a sender of bitcoins from linking the public key of the reciever to a transaction, requiring only a single additional option for what
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