A 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin's Anonymity (wired.com) 6 points by 8bitsrule 2y ago ↗ HN
[–] starbase 2y ago ↗ Irresponsible headline. Nobody who has done an hour of research in the last decade expects that flavor of anonymity on the blockchain. [–] litoE 2y ago ↗ The original article is not about the anonymity in the blockchain per se, but about the first person who made it explicit and published papers describing it, over "a decade" ago. [–] 8bitsrule 2y ago ↗ Thanks in large part to the mathematician who's the subject of the article, set in and before 2013.Straight from the horse, PDF: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf
[–] litoE 2y ago ↗ The original article is not about the anonymity in the blockchain per se, but about the first person who made it explicit and published papers describing it, over "a decade" ago.
[–] 8bitsrule 2y ago ↗ Thanks in large part to the mathematician who's the subject of the article, set in and before 2013.Straight from the horse, PDF: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 19.2 ms ] threadStraight from the horse, PDF: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf