Research Papers
Work in progress.
General Survey / Mixed
- “Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph” (2012) by Dorit Ron, Adi Shamir
- “A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names” (2013) by Sarah Meiklejohn, Marjori Pomarole, Grant Jordan, Kirill Levchenko, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage
- “Evaluating User Privacy in Bitcoin” (2013) by Elli Androulaki, Ghassan O. Karame, Marc Roeschlin, Tobias Scherer, Srdjan Capkun
- “Privacy-Enhancing Overlays in Bitcoin” (2015) by Sarah Meiklejohn, Claudio Orlandi
- “The Other Side of the Coin: User Experiences with Bitcoin Security and Privacy” (2016) by Katharina Krombholz, Aljosha Judmayer, Matthias Gusenbauer, Edgar Weippl
- “A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues of Bitcoin” (2017) by Mauro Conti, Sandeep Kumar E, Chhagan Lal, Sushmita Ruj
Protocol Proposals & Analysis
- “Sybil-Resistant Mixing for Bitcoin” (2014) by George Bissias, A. Pinar Ozisik, Brian N. Levine, Marc Liberatore
Node & Peer-to-Peer Layer
- “An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System” (2012) by Fergal Reid, Martin Harrigan
- “An Analysis of Anonymity in Bitcoin Using P2P Network Traffic” (2014) by Philip Koshy, Diana Koshy, Patrick McDaniel
- “Deanonymisation of Clients in Bitcoin P2P Network” (2014) by Alex Biryukov, Dmitry Khovratovich, Ivan Pustogarov
- “P2P Mixing and Unlinkable Bitcoin Transactions” (2017) by Tim Ruffing, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate
Merchants & Exchanges
- “Proving Your Bitcoin Reserves” (2014) by Zak Wilcox
- “Provisions: Privacy-Preserving Proofs of Solvency for Bitcoin Exchanges” (2015) by Gaby G. Dagher, Benedikt Bünz, Joseph Bonneau, Jeremy Clark, Dan Boneh
Hardware & Devices
Wallets
Web & Browser
- “When The Cookie Meets The Blockchain: Privacy Risks of Web Payments via Cryptocurrencies” (2017) by Steven Goldfeder, Harry Kalodner, Dillon Reisman, Arvind Narayanan