Anonymity is the end goal when studying privacy, and it’s useful to think of de-anonymization as a game.We imagine an adversary with some access to information, and it tries to…
Our previous post in this series introduced the basic idea behind wallet or address clustering, the trivial case of address reuse, and the merging of clusters based on the common…
The Bitcoin transaction graph has various observable patterns, with wallet clustering of highest importance. Some of these patterns have been studied and used to link coins from the same wallet,…