Hiding transaction amounts and balances in Bitcoin

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8564 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 161-178

  Androulaki, Elli ^a   Karame, Ghassan O ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; hiding Bitcoin balances; hiding transaction amounts; user privacy; ZeroCoin

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

BITCOIN; COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; HIDING TRANSACTION AMOUNTS; ONE-WAY ACCUMULATORS; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; USER-PRIVACY; ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PROOFS OF KNOWLEDGE; ZEROCOIN;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84904168248     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08593-7_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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