Deanonymisation of Clients in Bitcoin P2P Network
Alex Biryukov, Dmitry Khovratovich, Ivan Pustogarov · 2014
Bitcoin is a digital currency which relies on a distributed set of miners to mint coins and on a peer-to-peer network to broadcast transactions. The identities of Bitcoin users are hidden behind pseudonyms (public keys) which are recommended to be changed frequently in order to increase transaction unlinkability.