- The Inevitability of Privacy in Lightning Networks Here’s a risky myth pervading the Bitcoin community: The Lightning Network model will inherently improve Bitcoin privacy. Off-chain transaction techniques move some transaction data from the indefinitely public blockchain record to other places. By this virtue, advocates conclude this will make sensitive data harder for privacy attackers to gather. Unfortunately, we do not have the […]
- Estimating Bitcoind’s Share of Blocks bitcoind is a daemon process that handles sending and receiving bitcoins for Bitcoin Core (formerly the “Satoshi client”) and its various forks (XT, Classic, Unlimited). Some people who use bitcoind to manage their funds use Bitcoin-Qt (sometimes also referred to as “Bitcoin Core”), a graphical interface for bitcoind available on many popular operating systems. Based on […]
- RFC: Tool for tracking and visualizing Bitcoin address reuse I want to end address reuse in the Bitcoin blockchain. Today, I’m releasing source code for a tool that collects data about address reuse in the blockchain and visualizes it. I’m also releasing visualizations of the data for the first 200,000 blocks in the blockchain (up to September 22, 2012). This is my request for […]
- Privacy for Bitcoin on Mobile, Part 1: Giants and Dwarves On May 18th, the Open Bitcoin Privacy Project published our first wallet ratings report. To my knowledge, this is the first publicly shared data that compares wallet privacy. We have many plans to hone and expand our analysis, but already it has revealed a wealth of insight into the current state and near future of […]
- Main Street’s Financial Privacy The following is an introduction I wrote for the Open Bitcoin Privacy Project’s Spring 2015 Wallet Privacy Rating Report, published May 17th, 2015. You can download the report here [github.com]. Any technology as revolutionary as Bitcoin is bound to come with surprises. In fact, if you’ve been following the technology for any appreciable amount of […]
Money, Security, and Privacy for the 21st century.