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Zerocoin: Anonymous Distributed E-Cash from Bitcoin
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Bitcoin is the first e-cash system to see widespread adoption. While Bitcoin offers the potential for new types of financial interaction, it has significant limitations regarding privacy. Specifically, because the Bitcoin transaction log is completely public, users' privacy is protected only through the use of pseudonyms. In this paper we propose Zerocoin, a cryptographic extension to Bitcoin that augments the protocol to allow for fully anonymous currency transactions. Our system uses standard cryptographic assumptions and does not introduce new trusted parties or otherwise change the security model of Bitcoin. We detail Zerocoin's cryptographic construction, its integration into Bitcoin, and examine its performance both in terms of computation and impact on the Bitcoin protocol.
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“Mixing protocols such as CoinJoin [70], Ring Signature blockchains like Monero [72] and Zero-Knowledge blockchains like Zerocoin [16], all hinder the token's history, making the owner's addresses uncorrelatable by hiding them in a set of possible owners.”
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- Authors
- Miers, I., Garman, C., Green, M., & Rubin, A. D.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Venue
- 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2013-05
- Pages
- 397-411
- ISSN
- 1081-6011 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2013686672
- Cited by
- 983
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- FWCI
- 37.03
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (FA8750, FA8750-11-2-0211)
- Office of Naval Research (N00014)
- Air Force Research Laboratory (FA8750-11-2- 0211.)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Cryptography and Data Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
- Keywords
- Bitcoin, e-cash, anonymity, privacy, cryptocurrency, cryptographic constructions, pseudonyms, transaction logs
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