Report on the Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network

I think the title speak by itself, it seems Bitcoin is becoming harder and harder to use for anonymous activities like DarkNetMarkets.

It is probably opening a road for altcoins that will allow a higher level of anonymity and security that Bitcoin can't provide.

Article :

http://cointelegraph.com/news/112995/report-proves-user-ids-can-be-traced-from-anonymous-btc-transactions

Academic Paper :

http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/18679


Comments


[2 Points] Sldop:

Did you read the paper? It requires users not be using TOR. The first step they go through is basically forcing Bitcoin nodes to not accept TOR connections temporarily.

A smart user simply wouldn't exchange bitcoin then, they count on users switching to non-TOR connections.

Use TOR and this entire scheme fails.