Privacy when Everyone is Watching: An SOK on Anonymity on the Blockchain

ePrint Report: Privacy when Everyone is Watching: An SOK on Anonymity on the Blockchain

Roy Rinberg, Nilaksh Agarwal

Blockchain technologies rely on a public ledger, where typically all transactions are pseudoanonymous
and fully traceable. This poses a major flaw in its large scale adoption of cryptocurrencies, the primary
application of blockchain technologies, as most individuals do not want to disclose their finances to the pub-
lic. Motivated by the explosive growth in private-Blockchain research, this Statement-of-Knowledge (SOK)
explores the ways …

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