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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Chain analysis
by
x3m
on 20/08/2018, 16:24:14 UTC
Does anyone know where can I get further info regarding this subject?

There are few researches that you can find easily, even though i never thoroughly read the research and mostly focused on de-anonymization :
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6735-deanonymization-in-the-bitcoin-p2p-network.pdf
http://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/18679/1/Ccsfp614s-biryukovATS.pdf
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1510/1510.07782.pdf
https://jonasnick.github.io/papers/thesis.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.07501.pdf
www.blockchainresearchnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Khalilov-and-Levi-2018-A-Survey-on-Anonymity-and-Privacy-in-Bitcoin-like-.pdf

There are specific research for de-anonymization attempt for CoinJoin and mixing service, even though i couldn't find any. Besides, there are few popular chain analysis services such as https://www.chainalysis.com/.

What will be the impact of this analysis with the rise of LN, sidechains and other anonymity solutions?

Maybe more people will have privacy/anonymity (even though Bitcoin is only pseudonymous) concern and they might support on-chain anonymity & scaling solutions such as Schnorr Siganture and MAST.

Thanks for all the links. Browsing around I've already ran across https://www.chainalysis.com/ but unfortunately it's a product. What I'm looking for are tutorials, documents, scientific papers (maybe based on graph theory) that can explain me the basis of chain analysis and then decide if it's worthwhile to dive more deep into the subject.
If you think about use cases it may have the potential to become a new branch of computer forensics.