Analyzing UTXO-Based Blockchain Privacy Threats

ePrint Report: Analyzing UTXO-Based Blockchain Privacy Threats

Simin Ghesmati, Walid Fdhila, Edgar Weippl

While blockchain technologies leverage compelling characteristics in terms of decentralization, immutability, and transparency, user privacy in public blockchains remains a fundamental challenge that requires particular attention. This is mainly due to the history of all transactions being accessible and available to anyone, thus making it possible for an attacker to infer data about users that is supposed to remain private.


In this paper, we provide a threat …

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