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Anonymity of Bitcoin Transactions An Analysis of Mixing Services

@inproceedings{Mser2013AnonymityOB,
  title={Anonymity of Bitcoin Transactions An Analysis of Mixing Services},
  author={Malte M{\"o}ser},
  year={2013}
}
Bitcoin, a distributed, cryptographic, digital currency, gained a lot of media attention for being an anonymous e-cash system. But as all transactions in the network are stored publicly in the blockchain, allowing anyone to inspect and analyze them, the system does not provide real anonymity but pseudonymity. There have already been studies showing the possibility to deanonymize bitcoin users based on the transaction graph and publicly available data. Furthermore, users could be tracked by… 
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