Year | 2015 |
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Author | Jules DuPont, Anna Cinzia Squicciarini |
Publisher | CODASPY '15 Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy |
Link | View Research Paper |
Categories |
Bitcoin / Cryptocurrencies |
The Bitcoin system (https://bitcoin.org) is a pseudo-anonymous currency that can dissociate a user from any real-world identity. In that context, a successful breach of the virtual and physical divide represents a signficant aw in the Bit-coin system [1]. In this project we demonstrate how to glean information about the real-world users behind Bitcoin transactions. We analyze publicly available data about the cryptocurrency. In particular, we focus on determining information about a Bitcoin user’s physical location by examining that user’s spending habits.