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War in Ukraine

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a digital currency in which transactions are verified and records maintained by a decentralized system using cryptography, rather than by a centralized authority.

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cryp·​to·​cur·​ren·​cy | \ ˌkrip-tō-ˈkər-ən(t)-sē , -ˈkə-rən(t)-sē \

Virtual currency : any form of currency that only exists digitally, that usually has no central issuing or regulating authority but instead uses a decentralized system to record transactions and manage the issuance of new units, and that relies on bitcoin hit the mainstream in 2014. Bitcoin ATMs started springing up all over the world ... , allowing people to exchange cash for the cryptocurrency, a secure digital payment outside of conventional financial institutions. cryptography to prevent counterfeiting and fraudulent transactions

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The first paper on how Bitcoin works, written by Bitcoin anonymous founder who goes by the pen Name of Satoshi Nakamoto. Explains the idea and process behind becoming

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Fact 1. Bitcoin is an uncentralized digital currency
Fact 2. Bitcoin has a public transaction list of everyone’s transactions
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20 Pages Posted: 6 Sep 2017 Last revised: 19 Oct 2017

Date Written: August 27, 2017

Abstract

Currency is naturally defined as having three major functions: a unit of account, a store of wealth, and a standard of exchange. Among the various forms of currency, cryptocurrencies are (a) clearly distinguished from standard currencies like coins and paper formats, (b) labeled as legal tender, (c) regulated by central banks, and (d) used and recognized as a means of exchange in the issuing country. Moreover, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, and others are a relatively modern concept in contrast to the previously stated, but there is an important difference between digital currency and government-issued currencies. Due to technology, digital currency can now be a digital object that entails a unique number that can be directly exchanged anonymously and without accounting. The most common forms of cryptocurrencies are Litecoin, Ethereum, Zcash, Dach, Ripple, and Bitcoin. Except for the Bitcoin, the five previously mentioned forms were introduced between 2011 and 2016.

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adopting bitcoin as a digital currency through digital transformation

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Bitcoin is often described as a way to transact anonymously. But just how anonymous is it?

Anonymity vs. privacy

First off, it is useful to draw a basic distinction between anonymity and privacy in the context of financial transactions. We will call a transaction “anonymous” if no one knows who you are. We will call a transaction “private” if what you purchased, and for what amount, are unknown.

Let’s draw a simple matrix and locate different kinds of financial transactions within it:

Cash or barter are the most intrinsically private and anonymous means of transacting.

In the opposite corner are transactions which are neither anonymous nor private. This includes, say, campaign contributions over a certain amount. We may also include in this quadrant credit card transactions: although not public knowledge like a campaign contribution, your identity is nevertheless connected to every purchase you make, and this information is available to the merchant, credit card network, issuing bank, and — if subpoenaed — law enforcement.

Certain financial transactions are private but not anonymous; for example, the donor wall at the local art museum, which identifies the names of donors but not the amounts donated.

Bitcoin, by contrast, is anonymous but not private: identities are nowhere recorded in the bitcoin protocol itself, but every transaction performed with bitcoin is visible on the distributed electronic public ledger known as the blockchain.

The anonymity provided by bitcoin is at once a point of attraction and a challenge for financial regulation. As the pace of adoption of the currency grows and as it comes under scrutiny by the legal and financial systems, particularly with regard to compliance with applicable anti-money laundering (AML) statutes and know-your-customer (KYC) controls, its true level of anonymity will become an increasingly closely studied subject.

For many users of bitcoin, who access the currency through one of the popular online wallet or exchange services, their participation at the outset entails linking their personal identity to their bitcoin holdings. Bitcoin for these users is effectively no more anonymous than a bank account, although this loss of anonymity takes place at the point of entry into the currency and is not a feature of the bitcoin protocol itself.

For those who wish to take advantage of bitcoin’s intrinsic anonymity, they must find an alternative entry point, such as acquiring bitcoin in a private transaction, as compensation for goods or services rendered, or as a reward for mining. Subsequent bitcoin transactions can then be anonymous, since real-world identities are not recorded on the blockchain ledger: the only identifying information recorded there are the bitcoin addresses, whose corresponding private keys are held by the owners as proof of ownership.

Maintaining one’s anonymity from this point forward, however, is in no way guaranteed: even supposing one manages to acquire bitcoins without giving up personal information, one’s real-world identity can still be discovered in the course of transacting bitcoin within the network. Let’s look at how this can happen.

Broadly speaking, deanonymization techniques pursue one of two complementary approaches, having to do with the public nature of the transaction ledger and with the possibility of exposing the IP addresses of the computers originating the transactions.

Anonymity and the transaction ledger

There is no upper limit to the number of addresses a bitcoin holder can control. All one’s bitcoins can be stored in a single address, or they can be dispersed into dozens or even thousands of addresses. Meanwhile, good practice recommends (though does not enforce) that every address be used only once: any amount left over in change from a transaction should not be kept in the old address but moved to a new one. This proliferation of addresses designedly obscures which ones are controlled by a single individual at a single point in time, and makes it difficult to track the flow of funds controlled by that individual over time.

It is possible, however, to leverage the perfect transparency of the transaction ledger to reveal spending patterns in the blockchain that allow bitcoin addresses to be bundled by user. This is the domain of transaction graph analysis.

Transaction graph analysis

Transaction graph analysis applies a few tricks and some educated guesswork to link the approximately 57 million transactions taking place between 62 million addresses to a subset of the unique holders of bitcoin. It then allows transactional relationships between these bitcoin holders to be mapped.

One basic technique in transaction graph analysis involves transactions with more than one input address. By definition these inputs are controlled by the same person — and if either address appears elsewhere in the blockchain then the associated transactions can also be linked to the same person.

A second technique takes advantage of the “good practice” mentioned above: if exactly one of the output addresses in a transaction has never appeared in the blockchain before, then it is a good bet that the new address is the change address.

A third technique looks at the numerical precision of the amounts involved in a transaction. For example, in a transaction generating two outputs corresponding to two new bitcoin addresses, where one of the outputs is, say, 3 BTC and the other is 2.12791 BTC, then it is a very good bet that the first number corresponds to the recipient and the second number to the change. What is the chance, after all, that the change should happen to end up in such a neat figure? The address originating the transaction can thus be linked to the change address with a high degree of confidence. The same analysis can be repeated after converting to major currencies such as USD to find “whole numbers” that might otherwise be hidden in bitcoin-denominated transactions and that enable sender to be distinguished from receiver.

Address deanonymization using these methods can be thwarted by sending bitcoins through so-called mixers or tumblers, which take a set of bitcoins and returns another set of the same value (minus a processing fee) with different addresses and transaction histories, thus effectively “laundering” the coins. But these services come with serious caveats. Users must hand over control of their bitcoins and trust the service to return them. Transaction graph analysis can identify use of a mixing service and flag the user as potentially suspicious. Mixers do not work well for very large sums, unless others with similarly large sums happen to be mixing their bitcoins at the same time. Some mixing services do not work as advertised and can be reverse-engineered. Services that operate legally must keep detailed records of how the coins were mixed, which could later be hacked or subpoenaed. And the new bitcoins received might themselves be tainted by illegal activity.

Seeding the transaction graph

Transaction graph analysis by itself only reveals the imprint of individual agency in the blockchain; it does not reveal any real-world identities. For this it is necessary to refer to information not contained in the blockchain.

A great deal of information linking bitcoin addresses to their identities is available publicly. Businesses accepting bitcoin may place a QR code near a cash register or on a website. Others may announce their bitcoin address through services such as blockchain.info/tags, which identifies the owners of thousands of addresses. Thousands more addresses can be harvested from public email forums when individuals include personal bitcoin addresses in signature lines to posts. This partial knowledge of identities can be combined with the transaction graph to deanonymize a swath of the transaction ledger.

Retroactive geolocation is one potential consequence of this deanonymization. Suppose a café accepts bitcoin and uses a fixed address for their over-the-counter transactions. If you are a patron of that establishment, and your bitcoin addresses become associated with your identity, then someone can easily call forth from the blockchain a partial record of your personal whereabouts over time.

Conversely, suppose someone wanted to link your identity to your bitcoin address, and you happen to mention that you visited the same café for lunch that day. Someone can look up the address used by the café, find the subset of transactions on that address taking place over the lunch hour, and filter the results by price to exclude transactions involving just a hot drink. Perhaps a bit more information on what you had for lunch, and a look at the café’s menu, and the chances of making a successful match are high.

Perfect knowledge of the transaction ledger also means that any additional information discovered at a later date can be retroactively applied, allowing further pieces of the identity puzzle to be dropped into place at any time. A single disclosure of identity, even years in the future, and every transaction on that address and those connected to it is compromised.

IP address anonymity

A complementary source of potentially deanonymizing information is available to every computer that participates in the decentralized transaction network by hosting a bitcoin node. This information is the set of IP addresses of the computers that announce new bitcoin transactions.

At the time of writing there are around 6,500 nodes accepting inbound connections from other nodes, and perhaps ten times that number which don’t accept requests for connections. The former maintain connections to several dozen peers on average, while the latter typically have eight peers. Both kinds of nodes generate transactions. Transaction propagation through the node network begins with the computer that first broadcasts the event to its peers, which then forward the event to their peers in an information cascade that usually reaches every node in the network within a few seconds.

The simple observation which can be exploited is that, provided one can find a way to connect to a majority of nodes, perhaps by controlling a coordinated sub-network of nodes spread over many devices, the very first node to relay a transaction is on average the originator of that transaction. The risk increases if multiple transactions are relayed from the same IP address. While a small random delay is baked into the transaction propagation protocol to help preserve the anonymity of the original sender, with the proper techniques enough signal is available through the noise to make a positive identification in many cases. And while use of a TOR router offers some measure of protection against IP address discovery, it exposes the user to other potential attacks.

An example of this kind of IP address deanonymization made public is blockchain.info, which discloses the IP address of the first node to report a transaction to its servers. The information is only as reliable as the web site’s node connectivity: with a declared 800–900 connected nodes at the time of writing, it is probably not enough to reliably pinpoint the originating IP in all cases.

So…

How anonymous is bitcoin today? Average users should be aware that it is certainly less anonymous than cash. Meanwhile, dedicated users willing to go through extraordinary lengths can find ways to acquire and use bitcoin anonymously, but the open nature of the transaction ledger and other unknowns leave open the possibility that identities and activities once considered perfectly secure may be revealed at some point down the road.

What about the future? As bitcoin adoption continues to increase, it is not out of the question that a technology arms race could arise between anonymizers and deanonymizers: on the one hand, increasingly sophisticated data mining schemes will be developed, possibly combining transaction graph analysis with IP address discovery, to trace the movement of funds in the blockchain between individuals and across borders. On the other, improved techniques will be devised to better conceal individual identity and activity.

Here there are many unknowns. Will the core bitcoin code be modified to further protect anonymity or to facilitate regulation? Will bitcoin mixing services become pervasive and secure? Will transaction graph analysis reach a degree of sophistication where most user activities can be easily traced? Will an alternative digital currency or side chain arise which tilts the balance for or against anonymity? All we can say with certainty is that bitcoin is still in its infancy and that existing thinking and tools in the area of anonymity are still primitive. We have seen only the opening moves; the endgame has yet to be played.

Further reading

“Evaluating User Privacy in Bitcoin,” Androulaki, Karame, Roeschlin, Scherer & Capkun. 2013.

“An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System,” Reid & Harrigan. May 7, 2012.

“Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network,” Biryukov, Khovratovich & Pustogarov. July 5, 2014.

“A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names,” Meiklejohn et al. 2013.

“An Inquiry into Money Laundering Tools in the Bitcoin Ecosystem,” Möser, Böhme & Breuker. 2013.

“Structure and Anonymity of the Bitcoin Transaction Graph,” Ober, Katzenbeisser & Hamacher. May 7, 2013.

“Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph,” Ron & Shamir. 2013.

“Bitcoin does not provide anonymity,” Bar-El. April 3, 2014.

“Anonymity,” Bitcoin Simplified.

“Protect your privacy,” Bitcoin.org

“KYC, AML and Bitcoin,” CEO.io

Adam Ludwin is co-founder of Chain.com. Special thanks to Steven Phelps for help with this article.

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An increasing number of online merchants now offer the ability to pay using the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. One of the great promises of this technology is anonymity: the transactions are recorded and made public, but they are linked only with an electronic address. So whatever you buy with your bitcoins, the purchase cannot be traced specifically to you.

This is handy for some, but the anonymity is by no means perfect. Security experts call it pseudonymous privacy, like writing books under a nom de plume. You can preserve your privacy as long as the pseudonym is not linked to you. But as soon as somebody makes the link to one of your anonymous books, the ruse is revealed. Your entire writing history under your pseudonym becomes public. Similarly, as soon as your personal details are linked to your Bitcoin address, your purchase history is revealed too.

That raises an important question for people hoping to use Bitcoin to make anonymous purchases: how easy is it to link them with their Bitcoin transactions?

Today we get an answer thanks to the work of Steven Goldfeder at Princeton University and a number of pals. These guys say the way information leaks during ordinary purchases makes it straightforward to link individuals with the Bitcoin transactions they make, even when purchasers use additional privacy protections, such as CoinJoin.

The main culprits are Web trackers and cookies—small pieces of code deliberately embedded into websites that send information to third parties about the way people use the site. Common Web trackers send information to Google, Facebook, and others to track page usage, purchase amounts, browsing habits, and so on. Some trackers even send personally identifiable information such as your name, address, and e-mail.

In this way, information about a transaction leaks onto the Web, where governments, law enforcement agencies, and malicious users can readily collect and analyze it.

The question that Goldfeder and co investigate is how easy it is to use this information to connect people to their Bitcoin transactions. This process requires the eavesdropper to know an individual’s personally identifiable information—name and e-mail, for example—and then to link that with a specific Bitcoin address.

The team began by listing major merchants that allow Bitcoin transactions. They came up with 130 of them, including Microsoft, NewEgg, and Overstock.

They then studied how Web trackers leak information from each of these sites during the purchase process. “We find that at least 53/130 of merchants leak payment information to a total of at least 40 third parties, most frequently from shopping cart pages,” say Goldfeder and co.

Most of this information leakage is intentional for the purposes of advertising and analytics. But the researchers also say some extra information is also sent. “We find that many merchant websites have far more serious (and likely unintentional) information leaks that directly reveal the exact transaction on the blockchain to dozens of trackers,” they say.

That’s bad news for people hoping to keep their Bitcoin purchases anonymous. But even when the exact transaction is kept hidden, it is still possible to make the link when the leak includes the amount and time of the purchase.

In that case, the eavesdropper needs to convert the purchase amount into Bitcoins using the exchange rate at the time and then search the blockchain for a transaction of that amount at that moment. This reveals the Bitcoin address of the user. Any other purchases made using that address are then trivial to track down.

There are a couple of additional factors that make this process trickier. The Web tracker might leak the cost of the product but not include shipping, so the total Bitcoin purchase may not be clear.

There may also be a gap between the time the user viewed the page the information leaked from—the checkout cart, for example—and the time when the purchase was actually made. Bitcoin purchases are time-stamped, so it becomes harder to track them down if the time is not known accurately.

The purchase amount is usually given in a local currency such as dollars or pounds and then converted into Bitcoin at the instant of purchase. Because of the large variability in Bitcoin exchange rates, it can be hard to work out the exact Bitcoin value if the purchase time is not known accurately.

All these factors make it harder to link individuals to their Bitcoin transactions, but it is by no means impossible. “We find that unique linkage is possible in over 60% of cases for realistic values of these parameters,” the researchers say.

There are ways to further hide Bitcoin transactions. One of the most popular is CoinJoin, a service that links users who want to make similar payments and then allows them to pay together. This mixes their bitcoins, making it harder to identify them.

But Goldfeder and co point out that if an individual uses CoinJoin to make several purchases in this way, it is straightforward to link them back: “If the victim employs 3 rounds of CoinJoin and the adversary observes two of the victim’s payments, he can link them back to her wallet (despite mixing) with 98% accuracy.”

There are several ways buyers can protect themselves using tools such as Ghostery, AdBlock Plus, or uBlock Origin. These are useful but can sometimes miss trackers and at other times prevent purchases entirely. “Such defences can be quite effective, but they are far from perfect,” say Goldfeder and co.

All this will come as depressing news to people hoping to preserve their privacy online.

But it will also be music to the ears of law enforcement agencies hoping to track nefarious activities. “Like virtually all deanonymization attacks on cryptocurrencies, our techniques could be used to build forensic tools for law enforcement use,” admit Goldfeder and co.

And like all deanonymization techniques, that will have advantages and disadvantages.

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1708.04748 : When the Cookie Meets the Blockchain: Privacy Risks of Web Payments via Cryptocurrencies

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Bitcoin Transactions Aren't as Anonymous as Everyone Hoped

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Nathan Shanks Research Paper Outline

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Discusses the bitcoin ledger and how it could be used find people. Concludes that bitcoin could be modified or revised to deal with such isssues

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No it is not trying to sell me anything
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It's purpose is to compare the anonymity and privacy of bitcoin

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/seansteinsmith/2022/03/06/bitcoin-is-showing-the-power-of-decentralized-money/?sh=32f1eee16af0

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As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues to rage, the human toll and cost cannot be understated; this tragedy must be resolved as quickly and peacefully as possible. Framed against these unimaginable costs, discussing financial measures and other such items can seem trivial. Seemingly trivial, but financial headlines and the actions taken by both Russia and the nations supporting the people of Ukraine have generated significant conversation and debate. At the heart of the matter lies the following question, among others; what role do cryptocurrencies have to play during times like this?

Before analyzing some of the more direct implications of crypto, both now and going forward, there is something that needs to be addressed - the rise of more centralized crypto options. As new and varied applications such as stablecoins, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance (DeFi) opportunities, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have ascended to prominence, the shift away from true decentralization has been unmistakable. This horrible conflict has proven that - despite the convenience and buy-in some more of these more recent options have generated - there is fundamental power in the idea of decentralized currencies.

Let's take a look at some of the truths that Bitcoin has, and will continue to, prove going forward.

Decentralization is necessary. Setting aside the debates that can rage either in-person or via online forums, the power of decentralization is unquestionable. Time and again the centralization of power, control over information, and lack of options has led to fewer choices for consumers, restrictions over access to those choices, and a less dynamic marketplace. The turmoil and chaos accompanying the war in Ukraine has also led to turmoil in financial markets, with innocent civilians and the civilian government suffering most of all.

With the central government of Ukraine directing accepting donations denominated in in bitcoin and ether, and raising over $50 million to date, this demonstrates the pure power of decentralized financial options. For those in the most dire need of access to traditional financial systems, who were locked out of those services, decentralized cryptocurrencies have proven an invaluable lifeline.

There are certainly questions to be asked about how cryptocurrencies might be able to be used to evade sanctions, but that is not as clear-cut as it might initially appear.

Crypto is becoming decriminalized. Even as the amount of institutional interest and investment has continued to accelerate since 2020, there has been a recurring accusation that cryptocurrencies - especially decentralized options - are primarily used for criminal activities. In light of recent events, this accusation has been expanded to include nations using cryptocurrencies to evade financial sanctions. A seemingly accurate accusation, but one that is not not entirely accurate.

Firstly, the idea that cryptocurrency is untraceable is not true, and is especially not true for crypto such as bitcoin and ether - the public ledgers underpinning these instruments are able to be analyzed by anyone, including law enforcement agencies. Secondly, as large as the cryptoasset space has become, the liquidity that is available simply would not be enough for widespread sanction evasion at the nation-state level. Lastly, but most importantly, is that major crypto exchanges - in addition to requiring Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance.

With most major crypto exchanges cooperating with lawmakers and regulators, this avenue for unlawful usage of crypto has been restricted.

Mainstream adoption will be accelerated. The ceaseless conversation and debate surrounding the impact and implications of cryptoassets will also have a second-order effect; the acceleration of widespread adoption. As the worldwide media has brought the original use case of cryptocurrencies - decentralized money not controlled nor governed by an central government - to the proverbial front burner for many individuals, the enthusiasm for this use case is undeniable.

As with virtually every other technology or large change to the way in which data is treated and managed, a headline impetus can help accelerate adoption by the non-expert audience. Directly observing the impact cryptocurrencies on individuals and allowing freedom of exchange, despite whatever else is happening in the world, may just be the impetus regulators and policymakers.

Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology have proven time and again the value they deliver to the marketplace, and the wider global media is communicating these attributes on a nearly continuous basis. Cryptocurrencies have come a long way since the original bitcoin blockchain whitepaper was published online, and the original genesis block kickstarted the entire wider cryptoasset ecosystem. During this accelerated, and continued, growth and adoption among both individuals and institutions - as creative and dynamic as that has been - continued to shift and pull crypto more toward centralization trends. In the face of all of this excitement it would be easy to forget the true and original power of cryptocurrency was the borderless and decentralized fundamentals linked to this technology. Markets, regulators, and market participants would be well advised to remember that lesson going forward.

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Bitcoin Is Showing The Power Of Decentralized Money

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1. Bitcoin is anonymous but not private
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talks about bitcoin privacy concerns and how they can be exploited.

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1. Ukrainian and Russian money has been worthless and bitcoin decentralization offers a solution to the problem
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Nathan Shanks research projectr first draft

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Nathan Shanks research projectr first draft